Akash John
Architect at H&R Block
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Top SchoolAkash John is an enterprise cloud security architect with over 16 years of hands-on experience designing and building secured public cloud infrastructures across Azure, AWS, GCP and Rackspace. He specializes in identity and access management, automated incident containment to reduce blast radius, cloud misconfiguration prevention, container security, secret management, and cloud compliance and visibility. Proven at leading and mentoring large onshore-offshore teams, he has designed auto-containment frameworks, multi-cloud IAM integrations, and preventive controls that shift security left in fast-moving environments. His background spans deep operational roots (DevOps, system administration, monitoring and cost optimization) through to strategic cloud security architecture, giving him a pragmatic lens on risk and governance. Based in Thiruvananthapuram, he blends global enterprise experience with a knack for converting incident learnings into automated, auditable controls that measurably reduce organizational exposure.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Plus Two Science, Plus Two Science at Janardhanapuram Higher Secondary SchoolHigh School, High School at M G M H S PoozhanadBachelor's degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (99)
command-line-interface10
azure-cli10
security10
azure10
cli10
java10
angularjs10
spring-boot10
aws10
discord-bot10
aws-security9
ansible9
shell9
python9
security-automation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johnakash/aws-tweaks
Jan 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
tmobile/pacbot
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
PacBot (Policy as Code Bot)
Contributions:43 commits, 49 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 1 month
policycloud-auditingbotpolicy-as-codediscord-bot
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