Applied AI Platform Engineer
BHARGAV
SUTAPALLI
About
Bhargav Sutapalli
Reading, UK
Applied AI
Platform Engineer
Engineer.
Builder.
Cricket player.
I'm an Applied AI Platform Engineer — I build platforms, solutions, tools and systems that solve real problems at scale. 13+ years of deep engineering experience, now combined with applied AI to make infrastructure smarter, not just more reliable.
At Capital One I design and ship production-grade platforms — automation frameworks, observability systems, DR pipelines and AI-augmented operational workflows across AWS, Kubernetes and OpenShift. I hold a postgraduate degree in AI & Machine Learning from UT Austin and I'm actively embedding agentic patterns into engineering workflows: intelligent alerting, guided incident response and self-healing capabilities.
Outside work I build just as much. Full-stack web platforms, AI chatbots, health apps, social automation pipelines — concept to production, solo. Building is how I think.
Education
PG AI / ML
University of Texas at Austin
Certifications
AWS SAP · CKAD
Open to
Senior / Staff / Principal
Focus
Applied AI · Platform Engineering
Experience
Where I've worked.
Capital One
Formerly Discover Financial Services UK
Nov 2021 — Present
Reading, UK
Applied AI Platform Engineer / SRE
Building AI-augmented reliability tooling and platform automation at scale — bridging deep SRE engineering with applied AI to reduce operational toil and improve system intelligence.
Vodafone UK
Sep 2016 — Nov 2021
UK
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Scaled observability, infrastructure automation and cloud migration across large AWS environments.
Hewlett Packard
Jan 2012 — Jan 2016
India
DevOps Consultant / Middleware Specialist
CI/CD transformation, platform automation and enterprise middleware delivery across large-scale client environments.
Full details available on request — request my resume
Projects
Things I've built.
Personal platforms, AI tools and automation pipelines — plus internal tooling from a decade of SRE work.
Earley Cricket Club Platform
Full-stack · AI chatbot · Social automation
Built the entire digital platform for Earley Cricket Club from scratch — EarleyBot (AI cricket intelligence chatbot), live player statistics, opponent analysis, fixtures & results via Play Cricket, and an automated Instagram pipeline that posts match updates hands-free.
4
Teams
17+
Yrs data
AI Bot
EarleyBot
Open
Source
Health coaching platform · AI chat
HealthCheck Webapp
Web platform for a holistic health coaching practice — programme pages, AI chat assistant, WhatsApp integration and client onboarding. Built for an AFPA-certified coach specialising in autoimmune, thyroid and gut health.
Instagram · Meta Graph API · Auto-posting
Cricket Social Automation
Automated Instagram posting pipeline — pulls fixture and result data from Play Cricket, generates formatted posts and auto-publishes to Earley CC's Instagram using Meta Graph API. Zero manual effort on match day social updates.
Built at Work
Happy to discuss in detail
DR Automation Framework
Manual DR process → repeatable, auditable runbook. Orchestrates traffic failover and multi-step validation end to end.
Observability Onboarding
Automated logging and monitoring setup for microservices — standardising observability across every team at scale.
Deployment Validation Tool
Validates Kubernetes deployments against SRE best practices before go-live — probes, resource limits, image policies.
Database Configuration Analyser
Multi-region database analysis to surface cost and performance improvements across cloud environments at scale.
Production Runbook Automation
Turned the manual step-by-step procedures the support team runs during incident response into one-click automated workflows — reducing MTTR, eliminating human error under pressure. Includes a maintenance mode component to silence monitors during planned operations.
Stack
Built on these.
13+ years of production experience across cloud, reliability and AI tooling.
Cloud & Orchestration
AWS · Kubernetes · OpenShift · Azure DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform · Ansible · Helm
Observability
Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · Splunk · ELK / Kibana · AppDynamics
Reliability Engineering
SLIs / SLOs · Error Budgets · Chaos Engineering · Incident Response · DR Automation
CI/CD
Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI
Languages
Python · Node.js · Shell / Bash · Groovy
AI & ML
Applied ML · Agentic AI · LLM integration · UT Austin PG
Beyond Work
Life outside
the terminal.
Not just a list of technologies. Here's what keeps me sharp, grounded and human.
Cricket
Cricket
I play cricket in Reading — it teaches composure under pressure, the same skill that matters most when an incident hits production at 2am. Teamwork, reading the game and performing when it counts.
Match photos
Training
Fitness & Strength
From very thin to building real strength — years of consistent training, better nutrition and daily discipline. Sustainable change takes patience, structure and the right environment. Not shortcuts.
Progress photos
Life
Family & Health
My wife Kavya (healthcoachkavya) is a holistic health coach — AFPA-certified and specialising in gut, thyroid and autoimmune health. A lot of how I eat, recover and show up every day is shaped by what we learn and experiment with together. Long-term energy over short-term results.
Also built her coaching platform — healthcoachkavya.com
Contact
LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING
RELIABLE.
Hiring for a Platform / SRE or Applied AI engineering role? Building something in reliability or intelligent operations? Or just want to talk shop — I'm always happy to connect.