Neerja Narayanappa
Team Lead - Cloud Infrastructure And Governance at American Airlines
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeerja Narayanappa is a cloud infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience, currently leading Cloud Infrastructure and Governance at American Airlines where she shapes enterprise Azure policy, governance, and security standards. She combines deep hands-on engineering—Python, Go, Terraform, ARM, Kubernetes—with a strong focus on CIS benchmarks and risk-driven cloud standardization to eliminate redundancies and optimize cost and operability. Her background includes significant OpenStack contributions and automating production deployments, reflecting both open-source pedigree and applied platform engineering. Neerja mentors teams, drives cross-functional collaboration, and codifies best practices for service management, monitoring, and change control. She holds an MS in Computer Science from UT Arlington and has a practical blend of virtualization, NFV, and DevOps experience dating back to early OpenStack work. Less obvious: she pairs security-first governance with developer-friendly automation, ensuring controls are enforced without slowing delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute Of TechnologyElectronics, Electronics at Mount Carmel College, Palace Rd, Bengaluru
Japanese
Github Skills (33)
terraform-cloud10
graph10
hcl10
hashicorp10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
infrastructure10
aws10
google10
resource-manager10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
devops10
terraform-module10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neerja28/Azure-Workbook
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
neerja28/HackerRank
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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