Cloud Platform Architect & Governance Owner

The real cost of hypergrowth isn't the outage — it's the accumulation of one-off decisions nobody has time to undo. Archana architects against that risk by design, not in response to it.

Archana is the architect a fintech needs at exactly the moment growth outpaces governance — someone who treats account security, cost accountability, and disaster recovery as core engineering work, not damage control after something breaks. She isn't only building the estate; she's the person business units go through when a request touches cloud architecture, networking, security, or RBAC, because she can represent platform, security, SRE, IT, and compliance in the same conversation without losing any of their concerns. Across six-plus years on the same estate, she's taken the company through 40x headcount growth without the technical debt, security exposure, or runaway spend that usually comes with it — engineering the account foundations, zero-trust connectivity (Cloudflare WARP/ZTNA), and DNS architecture across Route 53 and Cloudflare that let any business unit stand up a fully governed environment without waiting on a ticket. She's now leading the platform's next transition: from a reactive service-desk model, through self-service platform-as-a-service, to platform-as-a-product — including founding a Terraform Champions program to make the rest of engineering IaC-literate, and building the Claude and Cursor coding-agent skills that carry that same platform discipline into the AI-native era. AWS Certified Solutions Architect and Developer. M.S. Computer Science, University of Nebraska Omaha.