Summary
Anand Rajagopalan is a seasoned infrastructure and security leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms in regulated, enterprise environments. Currently a Lead Infrastructure Engineer and Tech Lead Manager at Atlassian, he’s driven Kubernetes and EKS security standards, CIS hardening, and migration efforts that cut costs and improved reliability across thousands of nodes. He excels at turning startup-era, minimally controlled platforms into audit-ready, FedRAMP/SOC 2/SOX-compliant systems while remaining hands-on—designing network segmentation with Cilium and authoring compliance automation that reduced manual audit work from days to hours. Anand combines people leadership (hiring and mentoring engineering teams) with deep technical ownership of infrastructure controls, and has a track record of delivering measurable business impact such as a $20K/month cost reduction. Based in Mountain View, he pairs formal training in information security with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to secure platform engineering.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B E Electronics and Communications, B E Electronics and Communications at Manipal Institute of Technology
MS Information Security and Assurance, MS Information Security and Assurance at Dakota State University