Available for AI engineering & cloud architecture roles

Hi, I'm Rahul Monde.
I architect cloud platforms & ship AI agents.

Solution Architect & Technical Lead with 16 years across Azure, GCP and AWS. I modernize infrastructure with Kubernetes & Terraform, harden the SDLC with DevSecOps, and now build Agentic-AI workflows that take real load off engineering teams.

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  • 16years in tech
  • 3major clouds
  • 99.9%platform uptime
  • +30%IaC velocity via Copilot
Rahul Monde

Cloud · DevOps · AI

  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Apigee
  • RAG
  • Agents
Currently studying AI-102 & building agents with Claude

// 01 — About

From Unix support to Agentic AI

I started out as a Unix L1 engineer in 2009 and grew into a Solution Architect & Technical Lead at Globant, where I lead cloud and DevOps engagements for enterprise customers. My day-to-day blends hands-on platform engineering with pre-sales architecture, talent strategy, and now Generative AI integration.

I'm AWS, GCP and Azure-certified, and I'm deepening my AI expertise — currently preparing for AI-102 (Designing & Implementing an Azure AI Solution) and recently completed Google Cloud's Generative AI certification. I experiment with Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search and Apigee-fronted GPT deployments. My next goal is to ship an agent of my own using the Claude Agent SDK.

I write on LinkedIn and Medium about the gnarly bits — debugging arcs, wrong hypotheses, and the small insights that save teams hours.

// 02 — Skills

What I bring to a team

Self-rated on a 1–5 scale: 1 = theoretical · 3 = independent · 5 = expert / can teach.

Cloud & Platform

    DevOps & Automation

      Languages & Tools

        Observability & AI

          // 03 — Certifications

          Validated, in flight, and from a previous chapter

          Cloud and AI certifications I've earned, am currently pursuing, or have held in the past.

          In progress

          Microsoft Certified: AI Engineer Associate

          AI-102 · Designing & Implementing an Azure AI Solution

          Microsoft · target 2026

          Active

          Generative AI

          Generative AI certification

          Google Cloud

          Previously certified

          Certified Kubernetes Administrator

          CKA · CNCF / Linux Foundation

          Hands-on, performance-based exam · skills retained

          // 04 — Experience

          16 years, six companies, one direction: up the stack

          1. May 2019 — Present · 7 yrs

            Solution Architect & Technical Lead — Cloud, DevOps, AI

            Globant India Pvt. Ltd.

            • Govern hybrid-cloud lifecycle on Azure & GCP, holding 99.9% uptime for client-facing APIs.
            • Accelerated IaC delivery +30% using GitHub Copilot as a pair-programmer for Ansible, Python and Node.js automations.
            • Engineered Node.js / Python utilities to extend the Apigee Edge platform with custom admin tooling.
            • Embedded DevSecOps scanning (Mend, SonarQube, AquaSec, Checkmarx) into CI/CD pipelines.
            • Deployed GPT models behind an Apigee proxy for rate limiting, load balancing & guardrails — reducing tokens and hallucinations.
            • Built a sentiment-analysis agent inside Globant's Enterprise AI tool.

          2. May 2016 — May 2019 · 3 yrs

            AWS Cloud Engineer

            Cognizant Technology Solutions

            Designed and operated AWS workloads for enterprise customers — provisioning, hardening, and migrations.

          3. Sep 2014 — Mar 2016 · 1.5 yrs

            AWS Cloud Admin / Unix Administrator

            Tata Consultancy Services

            Hybrid AWS + Unix administration across regulated workloads. Patch, monitor, automate — repeat.

          4. Aug 2012 — Sep 2014 · 2 yrs

            Production Support Engineer

            Cybage Software

            Owned 24×7 production support for revenue-critical services — incident response, RCA, and runbook hardening.

          5. Apr 2012 — Aug 2012

            Unix Administrator

            SANPulse

          6. Nov 2009 — Apr 2012 · 2.5 yrs

            Unix L1 Support Engineer

            Tech Mahindra

            Where it all started — tickets, terminals, and learning that "it works on my machine" is never an answer.

          // 05 — Projects & Writing

          Selected work

          A mix of platform, automation and AI experiments. More on GitHub.

          Agentic AI

          Sentiment-Analysis Agent

          Embedded inside Globant's Enterprise AI tool. Classifies free-form feedback streams and routes them to the right squad.

          • LLM
          • Prompt engineering
          • Guardrails
          GenAI Platform

          GPT-on-Apigee Gateway

          GPT models deployed behind a Google Apigee proxy with rate limiting, load balancing and customer-codebase context — cutting tokens & hallucinations.

          • Apigee
          • OpenAI/Azure OpenAI
          • Node.js
          DevSecOps

          Pipeline Hardening Suite

          Mend, SonarQube, AquaSec and Checkmarx wired into Azure DevOps + GitHub Actions, with vulnerability triage runbooks.

          • Azure DevOps
          • GitHub Actions
          • SAST/SCA
          IaC

          Copilot-Augmented Terraform & Ansible

          Reorganized IaC repos for human + AI pair-programming. Result: ~30% faster delivery without sacrificing review depth.

          • Terraform
          • Ansible
          • GitHub Copilot
          Writing

          LinkedIn & Medium

          I share debugging arcs, wrong hypotheses, and the small insights that save teams hours. Topics: Azure, Kubernetes, Apigee, Agentic AI.

          Visit LinkedIn →
          Coming soon

          My first Agentic AI build

          An autonomous agent built with the Claude Agent SDK — turning my "build at least one agent of my own" goal into a shipped artifact.

          // 06 — Contact

          Let's build something

          Best for: cloud architecture reviews, platform engineering, AI/agent integration, technical leadership.

          Email me LinkedIn GitHub