Resume - Vikas Mishra
Resume of Vikas Mishra - Platform Architect at Google with 16+ years of experience in distributed systems, LLM pipelines, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience
Platform Architect - AI and Cloud
Bridge the gap between Google's global AI research and the hyper-scale demands of India's top digital-native companies; guiding enterprises in modernizing and scaling their AI infrastructure using Google's specialized AI accelerators (TPUs) and Gemini Family Models.
- Architected one of the largest GKE deployments in APAC for Search Solution, maintaining 99.99% uptime while supporting millions of concurrent users
- Engineered AI/ML infrastructure optimizations during Model Training and Tuning that delivered 30% faster model training and a 20% reduction in overall cloud costs
- Led the integration of production-grade LLMs and Graph/Vector-based RAG systems, directly resulting in a 25% increase in user engagement
- Awards: Cloud Club Award recipient (2026, 2023)
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Led SRE initiatives and cloud migration for India's largest fashion e-commerce platform.
- Led a team of 20+ SRE Engineers, Leads and Managers
- Architected Platform - Infra, Data and Apps for India's biggest sale events Myntra EORS and Flipkart's Big Billion Days
- Spearheaded migration to Azure and Kubernetes, achieving 99.95% uptime and 40% reduction in deployment time
- Engineered DNS-as-a-Service benchmarked at 100M QPS for 20M+ users
- Built fully managed PaaS offerings including Kubernetes-as-a-Service, Logging-as-a-Service, and Monitoring Platforms
- Automated incident response workflows, reducing MTTR by 30%
Principal Data Engineer
Designed and implemented scalable data infrastructure for real-time payment processing.
- Led a 5-member Data Engineering and ML Engineering team
- Designed scalable data infrastructure enabling real-time processing of millions of transactions daily
- Architected Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions improving data accessibility and time-to-insight
- Built high-throughput API layers and real-time data pipelines
- Optimized data workflows for reconciliation, settlements, and analytics
Staff Software Engineer
Led development of IBM Commerce on Cloud and Sterling Order Management SaaS offering.
- Led end-to-end implementation of Sterling Order Management as a SaaS offering
- Engineered scalable e-commerce backends supporting Walmart, TESCO, and Best Buy
- Delivered six improved versions of Order Management System with significant throughput and latency improvements
- Developed cloud-native systems using Java, J2EE, and IBM middleware with CI/CD pipelines
Education
Skills & Expertise
Cloud Platforms
AI & Machine Learning
Infrastructure
Practices & Leadership
Certifications
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
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Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Database Engineer
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Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
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Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer
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Publications
Blockchain-Based Verification for Fair Play in Fantasy Sports Using Merkle Trees
A blockchain-based solution using Merkle trees to guarantee fair play in large-scale fantasy sports. Validated with a proof-of-concept generating Merkle proofs for 50M records in under 2 minutes using Cloud Run microservices architecture.
Read PublicationAccomplishments
30+ keynote addresses at global conferences
Mentored 60+ engineers in AI/ML and cloud technologies
Google Milestone Award for Defensive Publication (2024)




