Tarun Singhal

Manager, Cloud Solution Architecture | AWS | Migration & Modernization | DevSecOps | AI

Professional Summary

Senior Solution Architect, Delivery Manager, and AWS Community Leader with 10+ years leading multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) migration and modernization engagements across APAC and EMEA. Operate as a player-coach building and mentoring architecture teams while owning delivery governance through an Architecture Review Board. Personally lead high-stakes escalations: live DR events, complex cross-region recovery, and enterprise-scale customer designs. Proven across large-scale AWS MAP 2.0 migrations, multi-region disaster recovery, and GenAI accelerators on Amazon Bedrock that automate migration assessment.

Professional Experience

Rackspace Technology Oct 2021 — Present
Gurgaon, India
Manager, Cloud Solution Architecture Apr 2025 — Present
  • Spearhead 15+ AWS & Azure migration engagements across APAC and EMEA, directing an 18-person architecture team while reducing average delivery lead time by 30%
  • Established an Architecture Review Board (ARB) with structured intake and scoring — cutting design rework by 40% across the practice
  • Delivered large-scale AWS MAP 2.0 migrations (500+ workloads) from on-premises to AWS with zero unplanned downtime during cutover
  • Managed a live regional-outage DR event for a financial-services client, orchestrating cross-region recovery of compute, OpenSearch, DNS/AD, and CloudFront within RTO
  • Architected COMPASS — a multi-agent GenAI system on Amazon Bedrock that automates the MAP Assess phase, reducing assessment effort from weeks to hours
Senior Solution Architect Apr 2024 — Apr 2025
  • Designed and delivered enterprise-scale solutions on AWS/GCP for clients with 100K+ user bases, achieving 99.99% uptime SLAs
  • Conducted 20+ Well-Architected Reviews, identifying $2M+ in annual cost-optimization opportunities across customer portfolios
  • Built a productized AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (Simple/Standard/Custom tiers) that cut new engagement setup from 6 weeks to 5 days
Professional Services Delivery Architect Dec 2023 — Apr 2024
  • Led Cloud Readiness Assessments for 10+ enterprise clients, mapping 300+ applications to target architectures with 7Rs classification
  • Defined security guardrails and compliance posture within the Cloud Adoption Framework, enabling FedRAMP and SOC 2 alignment
Professional Services Senior Consultant Oct 2021 — Dec 2023
  • Architected highly available, multi-region systems on AWS, GCP, and Azure serving 50M+ monthly requests with sub-100ms latency
  • Drove adoption of cloud-native CI/CD pipelines across 8 delivery teams, reducing release cycles from bi-weekly to daily
  • Evaluated and integrated emerging technologies (serverless, service mesh, observability platforms) into customer solutions
Daffodil Software Jul 2019 — Oct 2021
Gurgaon, India
Senior Associate DevOps Jul 2019 — Oct 2021
  • Built and operated 12+ Amazon EKS clusters hosting 60+ containerized microservices, achieving 99.95% availability with automated scaling
  • Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD — eliminating manual deployments and reducing rollback time from hours to under 2 minutes
  • Designed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines serving 5 product teams, cutting average build-to-deploy time from 45 minutes to 8 minutes
  • Established Prometheus + Grafana observability stack, reducing mean time to detection (MTTD) by 70% across production workloads
Oodles Technologies Nov 2017 — Jul 2019
Gurgaon, India
DevOps Lead Jan 2019 — Jul 2019
  • Architected event-driven serverless workflows with AWS Lambda, processing 1M+ daily events while reducing compute costs by 60% vs EC2
  • Codified 100% of infrastructure in Terraform (50+ modules), enabling one-click environment provisioning and disaster recovery
  • Deployed and managed blockchain nodes (Ethereum, Bitcoin, Ripple) for fintech clients, handling 10K+ daily transactions
Senior DevOps Engineer Aug 2018 — Jan 2019
DevOps Engineer Nov 2017 — Aug 2018
Aquevix Solutions Feb 2015 — Nov 2017
New Delhi, India
DevOps Engineer Feb 2015 — Nov 2017
  • Managed infrastructure for 20+ client applications across test, staging, and production — maintaining 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Automated deployment pipelines and scripted server provisioning, reducing release time from 4 hours to 15 minutes
  • Designed backup, replication, and failover strategies ensuring RPO < 1 hour and RTO < 30 minutes for critical workloads

Delivery Accelerators & IP

COMPASS: Multi-agent GenAI system on Amazon Bedrock automating AWS MAP Assess phase
App Assessment: Automates application discovery and 7Rs migration-readiness assessment
Landing Zone Accelerator: Productized AWS LZ (Simple/Standard/Custom) on Control Tower + Terraform
EKS Assessment: Maps EKS cluster architecture and identifies DR/migration risks
AWS Backup Accelerator: Standardizes backup config and compliance across accounts
MAP 2.0 Tag Pack: Open-source contribution to aws-samples (EFS & S3 Config rules)

Technical Skills

Cloud PlatformsAWS, Azure, GCP
IaC & ConfigTerraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer
ContainersKubernetes, EKS, Docker, ECS
CI/CD & GitOpsJenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
AWS ServicesLambda, Bedrock, Control Tower, CloudFront, OpenSearch, Organizations
ObservabilityPrometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch
LanguagesPython, Bash, Java, HCL
FrameworksWell-Architected, MAP 2.0, CAF, Microservices, DR

Education

Post Graduate Diploma — Electronics & Communications Engineering 2014 — 2015
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
B.Tech. — Electronics & Communications Engineering 2009 — 2013
Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Certifications

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Knowledge: Cloud Essentials
  • AWS Knowledge: Networking Core
  • AWS Knowledge: Migration Foundations
  • AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials
Multi-Cloud & Other
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Aviatrix Multicloud Network Associate
  • Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations
  • Introduction to Foundry & AIP for Enterprise Organizations