About

Architecture leadership grounded in engineering reality.

I work at the intersection of cloud strategy, platform design, production reliability, security, cost, and organizational adoption.

Bengaluru, India · Enterprise & global scope
Suyog Dabhole in a professional office setting

Professional summary

Connecting executive priorities to platforms teams can run.

I am a Cloud and Platform Architect focused on AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, and production reliability.

My work combines architecture ownership with platform design, technical decision-making, production troubleshooting, executive communication, and cross-team leadership. The outcome I aim for is practical: faster engineering delivery, safer infrastructure, more reliable services, and better cloud economics.

Platform scale
120+ microservices
Reliability
Up to 99.99%
Mentoring
10+ platform engineers
Executive scope
C-level to delivery teams

Architecture philosophy

A platform succeeds when the organization can use it well.

The strongest architecture is technically sound, operationally clear, economically responsible, and simple enough to become the default way of working.

01

Start with the operating problem

Architecture should make ownership, risk, delivery, and production behavior clearer—not add technology for its own sake.

02

Build paved roads, not hard walls

Strong defaults create speed and safety. Clear extension and exception paths preserve engineering judgment where variation is justified.

03

Use production evidence

SLIs, SLOs, incidents, utilization, and cost reveal where architecture assumptions meet real system behavior.

04

Make decisions adoptable

A design is only valuable when teams can understand it, operate it, and evolve it safely across environments.

Leadership approach

Set direction. Expose trade-offs. Enable good decisions.

Principal-level impact comes from raising the quality of decisions across teams—not becoming the approval bottleneck for every technical choice.

  • Translate business priorities into architecture options and risks
  • Create standards through reusable patterns and production evidence
  • Align security, platform, SRE, finance, and application stakeholders
  • Coach engineers through reviews, incidents, and complex trade-offs
  • Stay close enough to implementation to challenge assumptions credibly

Certifications

Verified professional credentials.

01Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
02AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
03Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Education

Engineering foundations.

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology

Shivaji University

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

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