Akhil Aendapally

Public cloud platform leader within Bloomberg's CTO Office, owning strategy and roadmap execution for public cloud infrastructure and platform engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP — defining the shared-responsibility model that delineates platform-owned capabilities from business-unit responsibilities.

• Transformed Bloomberg's public cloud operating model from fragmented, team-by-team infrastructure into a centralized platform with a shared-responsibility model — freeing business units from running their own DevOps/SRE so they could redirect engineering capacity to product and revenue work.
• Set the strategic direction and operating model for the Public Cloud Engineering organization as it scaled across multiple teams in New York and London — partnering with engineering managers on team design, headcount, and senior technical talent development.
• Drove the strategy and delivery of a multi-tenant, API-driven self-service cloud platform, moving teams onto governed golden paths — driving a 30% gain in developer productivity and a 43% reduction in operational overhead.
• Re-platformed infrastructure delivery off hand-built Jenkins/Groovy pipelines onto governed policy-as-code orchestration (Spacelift/TACOS) with GitOps approvals, a module registry, drift remediation, and local pre-deployment validation against all policies and WIZ scans.
• Defined zero-trust, least-privilege access: scoped just-in-time user access (100% of users), short-lived attested workload identity (Defakto/SPIRE) replacing static credentials (~80% of workloads), and self-service secrets/key/cert management (~85% auto-rotated).
• Established Kronos, Bloomberg's central managed-Kubernetes platform — provisioning standardized EKS/AKS/GKE clusters into team accounts with built-in guardrails, networking, and policy, plus an automated upgrade workflow that cut app-team cluster maintenance effort by 47%.
• Secured the software supply chain end-to-end: hardened, compliant base images by default (golden AMIs and buildpacks across cloud and on-prem), with WIZ scanning every image and generating SBOMs to block non-compliant deployments.
• Turned cloud networking into a self-service platform capability — abstracting connectivity behind APIs and a hub-and-spoke fabric that cut on-prem connectivity provisioning from 8–12 weeks to 1 day via an API request.
• Designed and piloted the CDP Agentic Platform — a multi-agent system (requirements analysis, policy-grounded architecture design via MCP, automated review, and provisioning) that cut the architecture-to-deployment cycle from two weeks to under a day across 4 pilot teams, open-sourced as a public reference implementation.
• Delivered a gateway Kubernetes cluster hosting the Envoy AI Gateway as the secure control point for third-party LLM and agent access, enabling 6 business-critical teams to adopt enterprise-safe AI via AWS Bedrock & Vertex AI.
• Established a central observability pipeline (Cribl) with self-service Grafana Cloud dashboards, giving teams unified logs and metrics that reduced mean-time-to-detect/resolve.
• Partner with Finance & Procurement on cloud capacity, forecasting, and commitment strategy — securing commitment-based discounts that cut overall cloud costs 35%.
• Operate Bloomberg's Cloud Governance Council (the public cloud architecture review board) with the COO organization, and led SOC 2 Type II readiness for BQuant Enterprise with automated WIZ evidence collection reusable as a firm-wide compliance accelerator.