Karthikeyan Shanmugam is an experienced Solutions Architect professional with about 24+ years of experience in the design & development of enterprise applications across industry domains. Currently he is working as Enterprise Architect at HCLTech where he helps customers build scalable, secure, resilient and cost-efficient architectures on cloud. Prior to that, he has worked in companies like Virtusa Consulting,Amazon, Ramco Systems, Infosys, Cognizant and HCL Technologies. He is the author of Kubernetes book 'IoT Edge computing with MicroK8s' published with Packt. His specializations include Cloud, Cloud-native,Containers,Container Orchestration Tools such as Kubernetes, IoT,Digital Twin and Microservices domains and has obtained multiple certifications from various cloud providers. He is also contributing author in leading journals such as InfoQ, ContainerJournal, DevOps.com, TheNewStack & Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF.io) blog. His articles on emerging technologies (includes Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Cloud-native development, etc.) can be read on his blog upnxtblog.com. Key Expertise : - Strong experience in AWS/Azure Cloud Stack. - Expertise in design and development of Cloud-Native Applications using PCF, Docker, AKS, GKE, EKS & Kubernetes Container/Container Orchestor Technologies. - Hands-on experience in Microservices design and development. - Bringing IoT, Digital Twins, AI & ML use cases to reality. - Expertise in creating application portfolio rationalization roadmap, cloud application migration assessment/roadmap in alignment with various adoption models. - Executing proof of concept and proof of technology. - Expertise in Java, J2EE( Spring, Hibernate, etc), Spring Boot Framework, Spring Cloud, Oracle,PostgreSQL. - Project Management Methodologies: Agile / SCRUM-based project management methodologies. SAFe Agilist Certified.