Swapnil – Cloud-Native Technology Leader

Swapnil is a cloud-native technology leader with over 17 years of experience building and scaling enterprise platforms across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. His focus spans containers, Kubernetes, observability, and secure cloud architectures that drive business outcomes.

He has led global teams and built a Strategic Center of Excellence for cloud platforms—driving cross-functional collaboration, platform reliability, and technical excellence. Swapnil has played a key role in shaping cloud adoption strategies, enabling DevOps maturity, and mentoring high-performing engineering and customer success teams.

Backed by his academic skills with an MS in Software Engineering, an MBA in Leadership, Strategy & Marketing, and expertise across AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM Cloud, Swapnil has also driven successful outcomes in highly regulated environments. He has led compliance efforts for SOC 2 Type I & II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, designing secure-by-default cloud infrastructures and frameworks for enterprise readiness. He has conducted AWS Well-Architected Reviews (WAR) and partnered with product, security, and operations teams to embed governance and resilience into cloud-native platforms.

His contributions to open-source technologies include Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, and OpenTelemetry, and he’s been recognized with the OpenStack Community Contributor Award. He is also an active speaker at global conferences such as OpenStack Summit, LinuxCon, ContainerCon, IBM Think, and Kubernetes Community Days, as well as various local technology meetups, where he shares insights on cloud-native adoption, observability, and platform leadership.

Currently, Swapnil leads Customer Success at Kloudfuse, helping organizations achieve full-stack observability across distributed infrastructure and applications—regardless of cloud provider. Swapnil is the founder and community leader of the Observability India LinkedIn group—an open forum for professionals passionate about modern observability practices, tools, and trends across India’s cloud-native ecosystem. You can follow him at the social media handles below.

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