GCP Platform Engineer · 4+ Years Experience

Pawan Kumar
Senapati

▸ Cloud Engineer II @ McDonald's India

Designing secure, scalable Google Cloud infrastructure. Automating everything with Terraform and CI/CD. Reducing costs by 18%, provisioning 95% of infrastructure as code.

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Years in Cloud

18%

Cost Reduction

95%

Infra Automated

50+

Apps Onboarded

GCP Certifications

Pawan Senapati

GCP · Terraform · K8s

GCP Terraform Docker GKE Apigee FastAPI

Career

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer II

Jul 2025 — Present

McDonald's India · Hyderabad

Designed secure, private Terraform modules for GCP resources, enabling consistent infrastructure deployment across enterprise teams
Engineered Workload Identity Federation (WIF) between GCP and Git repositories — zero service account keys, full CI/CD security
Automated end-to-end GCP project provisioning and Git repo creation, reducing manual effort by 50%
Onboarded 50+ McDonald's digital applications to production-ready GCP environments, migrating from AWS
Integrated Terraform IaC modules with Cortex IDP for UI-based infrastructure deployment, reducing Terraform dependency by 50%

Senior Platform Engineer

Aug 2024 — Jul 2025

Quantiphi Inc. · Bangalore

Optimized cloud resource usage, cutting infrastructure costs by 18% through serverless and storage efficiencies
Automated 95% of infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and integrated CI/CD pipelines
Deployed and managed 4 Dockerized applications with JFrog Artifactory for image management
Improved incident response times by 30% through Cloud Logging and Monitoring implementation
Strengthened security via IAM enforcement and secure VPC configuration across 100+ user accounts

GCP Cloud Engineer

Jul 2021 — Aug 2024

Cognizant Technology Solutions · Hyderabad

Resolved 20+ high-impact performance issues through technical discussions with client teams
Automated 2 cloud deployment pipelines, improving deployment speed by 40%
Containerized applications with Docker & GKE, reducing rollback rate by 25%
Increased process efficiency by 15% through performance metrics analysis
Mentored a team of 5 junior engineers in GCP best practices, IaC, and DevOps

Expertise