// Azure Solution Architect
Architecting resilient cloud platforms for enterprise scale
Senior Azure PaaS Engineer with 6+ years of production scars. I design for the failure modes I spent 2.5 years firefighting — so your platform never has to.
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2.5 years on the front lines of Azure Support — Sev-A and Sev-B incidents for global Microsoft enterprise clients. Root cause analysis on production outages, memory leaks, and cascading failures across App Service, AKS, and SQL Managed Instance.
Designed and deployed multi-region PaaS platforms at LTIMindtree. Led migration of monolithic workloads to containerized microservices on AKS with Istio service mesh. Drove adoption of IaC across the practice.
Bringing escalation-hardened design patterns to enterprise architecture. Specializing in Well-Architected Framework implementations, cost-optimized landing zones, and zero-trust security architectures for regulated industries.
“I design for the failure modes I spent 2.5 years firefighting.
— Subhankar Pattnaik
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Real-world cloud architectures across industries — designed with WAF principles and production-grade resilience.
A live Mechanist-protocol audit of an AI-assisted product pipeline: 5 extensions, 44 tests, 150 agents, 10 mechanism cards scored on the paper's four dimensions (arXiv 2608.12036).
Scalable e-commerce platform on Azure. Event-driven inventory management with Functions, Cosmos DB for product catalog, and Front Door for global CDN.
PCI-DSS compliant payment gateway. Private Link endpoints, Key Vault with HSM, AKS with network policies, and geo-redundant SQL with auto-failover groups.
HIPAA-compliant healthcare interoperability platform. FHIR API on API Management, Azure Health Data Services, and confidential computing with DCsv3 VMs.
Industrial IoT platform with Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes at edge, Azure Digital Twins for factory simulation, and real-time telemetry pipeline on Event Hubs + Stream Analytics.
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/* waf */
Every architecture I design is measured against all five pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
Multi-region deployment with auto-failover. Chaos engineering tested. 99.99% SLA architectures.
Zero-trust by default. Private endpoints, managed identity, RBAC least-privilege. Defense in depth.
Right-sized SKUs, reserved instances, auto-scaling. I save clients 30-40% without compromising SLA.
Full IaC pipelines. GitOps workflows. Automated runbooks. Monitoring and alerting by design.
CDN edge caching, read replicas, connection pooling, async patterns. Sub-100ms P95 latency.
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Five principles forged in production firefights. These govern every design decision I make.
Every component assumes its dependencies will fail. Circuit breakers, retry policies with exponential backoff, and graceful degradation are not afterthoughts — they are the starting point.
No click-ops. Every resource, every policy, every network rule is defined in Terraform or Bicep and version-controlled. Drift detection and reconciliation are automated.
Managed identities over connection strings. Private endpoints over public access. RBAC roles scoped to minimum required permissions. Zero standing access to production.
Every component emits structured logs, metrics, and distributed traces. Dashboards are built before the first deployment. If you can't see it, you can't fix it.
Budget enforcement via Azure Policy. Auto-scaling that scales down as aggressively as it scales up. Reserved instances where steady-state exists. Every dollar spent must earn its place.
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Live tracking across 4 layers — 150 production agents scored against the aifolks.org Agentic AI Concepts framework. Every Monday 9 AM IST: automated review + report.
Measured against the aifolks.org Agentic AI Concepts framework. Auto-refreshed weekly.
150 production agents across LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, and custom DAG engines. Dual-compatible with GPT-4o, Claude, and Grok. All 6 maturity gaps closed — July 31, 2026.
View Agent Repo →Every Monday at 9:00 AM IST, an automated review audits this dashboard, compares scores against the previous week, checks GitHub for new agent commits, and generates a progress report with trend analysis and recommended next actions.
Last assessed: 31 July 2026 · Auto-regraded weekly · 6/6 gaps closed
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I'm actively seeking a Solution Architect role where I can apply battle-tested design patterns to enterprise cloud platforms.
A Solution Architect position where I can lead cloud-native transformations — designing landing zones, migrating enterprise workloads, and embedding WAF principles into organizational DNA. I thrive in regulated industries where architecture decisions have real consequences.
📍 Based in India · Central India Region · Open to remote & hybrid