Srihari Pakalapati

Srihari Pakalapati is a Technology Leader and Principal Cloud Architect with over 15 years of progressive experience shaping the IT landscape across Platform Engineering, Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps, SaaS Operations, and Service Delivery. Renowned for bringing together strategic vision and deep technical expertise, Pakalapati has driven large-scale cloud transformations that balance innovation, governance, and enterprise-grade security. With a distinctive background spanning both the Cyber Security and Financial sectors, Pakalapati has delivered secure, scalable, and high-performing technology solutions across diverse industries. Pakalapati is an expert in designing AWS cloud platforms from Greenfield and leading end-to-end migrations of complex, legacy applications with minimal business disruption. A strong advocate for intelligent automation, Pakalapati leverages Infrastructure as Code frameworks like Terraform to enable consistent, compliant, and efficient deployments. Pakalapati portfolio also includes architecting data lakes, modernizing enterprise databases, and designing advanced analytics and AI/ML pipelines using Databricks, Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock to unlock data-driven intelligence. As a recognized authority in Site Reliability Engineering, Pakalapati has implemented observability systems, optimized performance metrics (SLA/SLOs), and established resilient multi-region disaster recovery strategies. In the cybersecurity domain, Pakalapati is known for embedding DevSecOps practices within CI/CD pipelines and advancing Zero Trust principles — ensuring an identity-first and least-privilege approach to cloud security. A thought leader and mentor within the global tech community, Pakalapati holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Networks. Pakalapati has been honored with prestigious awards, including the Globee Award in Cyber Security and the Stevie Award in Cloud Computing. Pakalapati is also a senior member of IEEE, ACM, and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), actively contributing to thought leadership and innovation in cloud & MLOps security spaces. Widely respected for his clarity of vision and ability to translate complex technology into business impact, Pakalapati is frequently invited to serve as a conference speaker, panel judge, and advisor on topics including cloud transformation, AI-driven solutions, and secure enterprise modernization.