About
The longer version.
I'm Vadiraj — a Platform Engineer with 3+ years of experience automating and managing cloud infrastructure on GCP and Kubernetes. Based in Melbourne, Australia, I currently work at ANZ Banking Group building internal developer platforms.
My focus is on making the "right path" the easy path — writing platform components in Golang, enforcing policy-as-code with OPA, and building self-service workflows so product teams can provision infrastructure without filing tickets.
Outside of work I write about platform engineering patterns, Kubernetes internals, and lessons learned running production infrastructure at scale.
Experience
Engineer
ANZ Banking Group · Melbourne, Australia
- –Built Golang-based platform components for an internal developer platform, enabling teams to self-serve Config Connector–backed GCP resources via Kubernetes.
- –Implemented platform-level validation, defaults, and governance logic in Golang — reducing manual YAML and enforcing secure, compliant provisioning.
- –Automated GCP infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform and Config Connector.
- –Implemented OPA (Open Policy Agent) policies for organisational compliance and security baselines across the platform.
- –Built and configured Prometheus monitoring and alerting across Kubernetes and GCP workloads, improving incident detection and response times.
- –Optimised Kubernetes custom controller performance, reducing reconciliation time from 1 hour to 10 minutes.
- –Developed acceptance and integration tests in CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Cloud Build.
- –Created Looker Studio dashboards to visualise system health, FinOps metrics, and cloud performance trends.
Kubernetes · GCP · Terraform · OPA · Prometheus · Golang · Python · GitHub Actions · Cloud Build
Full-Stack Developer
Autonio · Bristol, UK
- –Built and deployed smart contracts on the Cardano blockchain and developed an Ethereum–Cardano bridge.
- –Designed Flask APIs and React front-ends, deployed on AWS via automated CI/CD pipelines.
- –Improved system observability using AWS CloudWatch and custom metrics dashboards.
Python · Haskell · Flask · React.js · AWS · Solidity · web3.js
Software Engineer
CIPD, KLE Tech · Hubballi, India
- –Developed object detection and tracking systems using OpenCV and TensorFlow.
- –Integrated Intel RealSense for depth capture and 3D point-cloud visualisation.
Python · TensorFlow · OpenCV · Pandas · NumPy
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science & Engineering
BMS College of Engineering