Himanshu Kumar

Enterprise Cloud Platform & GenAI Solutions Specialist with over 10 years of total experience, including 5+ years building and scaling Cloud solutions. Expert in Generative AI based problem-solving, the end-to-end AI Model Lifecycle, advanced prompt engineering, agentic AI frameworks, MLOps pipelines, cloud security, Responsible AI, and cloud platform automations. Recognized for driving operational excellence, ensuring a customer-first approach, and fostering a culture of innovation to deliver secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions.

Ciena, India – Senior Engineer, Cloud Platform & AI

Oct 2022 – Present

• Spearheaded the design and deployment of a GenAI-driven vulnerability management solution using AWS services including Amazon Q, Cognito, WAF, Bedrock, and Step Functions, streamlining operations and saving over 20 hours weekly.
• Developing GenAI solution leveraging multi-cloud and agentic AI with Bedrock agentcore and multiple tool integrations to enable self-service resolution of cloud-related issues, enhance cloud support experiences, and integrate automations with AI agents aligned with Responsible AI.
• Developing and integrating a cloud-agnostic Responsible AI policy and corresponding security guardrails to govern and secure Generative AI (GenAI) uses, ensuring ethical standards and compliance across multi-cloud environments.
• Led the implementation of a GitOps-based account vending solution using AWS services including Account Factory, Control Tower, Step Functions, and other automation tools, streamlining processes and saving over 6 hours of effort per account provisioning.
• Architect tagging strategies to automate governance implementation and to improve resource organization and cost tracking.
• Design and manage a centralized logging pipeline integrating CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Control Tower, Config, and SSM logs, leveraging CloudWatch, Step Functions, and Kinesis Firehose for seamless Splunk SIEM integration.
• Manage detective and preventive security controls using AWS Config, Security Hub, and Wiz CSPM, ensuring CIS Benchmark compliance and achieving a cloud security posture score above 90%.
• Contribute to roadmap planning, aligning technical solutions with business objectives and future scalability.

Guavus (A Thales Company), India – Lead, DevOps, Customer Success

Mar 2015 – Sep 2022

• Deployed, and managed mission-critical, real-time AI/ML analytical solutions for a major telecommunications client, spanning the full Hortonworks ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Kafka, HDFS) and ensuring deployment and operational excellence through MLOps processes and robust database integration.
• Spearheaded and delivered multiple customer-facing Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs), successfully optimizing deployments and operational efficiency by collaborating across technical and client-facing teams.
• Led critical production deployments for enterprise clients, ensuring smooth rollouts and customer satisfaction.
• Spearheaded operational excellence across multiple project deployments by automating workflows and infrastructure provisioning using Python (Boto3) and key AWS services including S3, Lambda, EC2, and EKS.
• Guided junior engineers, promoting best practices in deployment and release governance.
• Proposed and led automation initiatives that reduced deployment complexity and timelines.
• Delivered end-to-end support for Guavus analytics solutions, from release governance to

deployment

Professional Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2023)

Education

• Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Compute