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Ankit Raj

Cloud & AI Tech Executive driving innovation at H&M Group

10+ years building enterprise-scale distributed systems and AI platforms across AWS, Azure & Google Cloud. Driving multi-cloud architecture, AI/ML platform engineering, and system design serving 200+ product teams.

Key Specializations: Distributed Systems · System Design · AI/ML Platforms · Cloud-Native Architecture · GenAI/LLM Orchestration · FinOps at Scale · MLOps · Secure DevOps

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Professional Journey

2024 — Present

Lead Cloud Architect — AI & Multi-Cloud

H&M Group

Architected distributed AI platforms on Microsoft Foundry & GCP Vertex AI serving 200+ teams. Led multi-million SEK FinOps programme reducing cloud spend by 35%. Deployed custom ML models processing 10M+ data points. Cloud governance for 50+ subscriptions. Enterprise architecture with SAP LeanIX, Zachman & TOGAF. Mentored 8+ engineers across cloud architecture and system design.

Microsoft FoundryGCP Vertex AIFinOpsDistributed Systems
2025 — 2026

Lead Cloud Architect — AML/KYC Modernisation

Ikano Bank (Contract)

Led end-to-end migration of AML & KYC APIs from on-prem to AWS serverless — 70% latency reduction. Built LLM-powered autonomous agent using AWS Bedrock + Claude Opus, cutting migration time 60%. Engineered prompt engineering framework with chain-of-thought templates. Serverless architecture handling 500K+ daily transactions.

AWS BedrockClaude OpusLambdaFargateTerraformPrompt Engineering
2023 — 2024

Lead Software Engineer — Platform Engineering

H&M Group

Engineered multi-cloud platform backbone — 99.9% uptime SLA for 200+ teams. Built Internal Developer Platform reducing onboarding from days to minutes. Shipped AI developer tools improving team velocity by 40%.

AzureGoogle CloudAzure PoliciesSentinelSAP LeanIXOpenAIClaudeGemini
2020 — 2023

Senior Software Engineer

H&M Group

Designed Zero Trust microservices — 15+ services with sub-100ms p99 latency. High-throughput GraphQL & REST APIs handling 50K+ RPM. API gateway platform on Azure + GKE. CI/CD standardisation across 200+ repos with 95% pipeline success rate.

GraphQLTypeScriptMicroservicesKubernetes
2019 — 2020

DevOps Engineer Consultant

Volvo Cars

Built enterprise observability — ELK, Grafana, Prometheus on AKS monitoring 100+ microservices. Reduced deployment cycle from hours to 15 minutes. Authored runbooks achieving 99.5% SLA compliance.

Azure DevOpsOpenShiftKubernetesGrafana
2016 — 2020

Cloud DevOps Engineer → Cloud Developer

Cognizant

Built AWS CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, Docker, ECS/Fargate serving 5+ enterprise clients. React-based Cloud Dashboard. Won 1st place — AWS Game Day 2018 (200+ participants).

AWSDockerReactPython
2012 — 2016

B.Tech Computer Science

Galgotias University

Specialization in Cloud Computing & Virtualization. Android-IoT Heart Rate Monitor. Big Data Analytics for Twitter.

Cloud ComputingIoTBig Data
Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)· MCP: Exam 533 Azure Infrastructure· AWS DevOps Engineer Pro· AWS Developer Associate· OpenHack: AI Knowledge Mining· OpenHack: Containers· OpenHack: Security & Identity· OpenHack: DevOps· Google India Udacity Scholar· Potential Orbit Shifter· Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)· MCP: Exam 533 Azure Infrastructure· AWS DevOps Engineer Pro· AWS Developer Associate· OpenHack: AI Knowledge Mining· OpenHack: Containers· OpenHack: Security & Identity· OpenHack: DevOps· Google India Udacity Scholar· Potential Orbit Shifter·

Technologies & Platforms

AWS

  • Solutions Architecture
  • EC2 · Lambda · Fargate
  • Bedrock · SageMaker
  • CloudFormation · CDK

Azure

  • Microsoft Foundry
  • Functions · App Service
  • Sentinel · Entra ID
  • Bicep · ARM Templates

Google Cloud

  • GKE · Cloud Run
  • Vertex AI · BigQuery
  • Pub/Sub · Dataflow
  • Compute Engine

DevOps & Infra

  • Kubernetes · Docker · Helm
  • Terraform · IaC
  • GitHub Actions · CI/CD
  • Grafana · ELK · Prometheus

Projects & Solutions

Microsoft Foundry
Enterprise AI

H&M Microsoft Foundry

Azure AI platforms & Vertex AI revolutionising fashion retail. Multi-model orchestration with OpenAI, Claude & Gemini for 200+ product teams.

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FinOps
Enterprise

Enterprise FinOps at Scale

Multi-million SEK cost optimisation. Enterprise FinOps adoption with multi-agentic AI orchestration and Azure Fabric analytics transforming cloud cost management at H&M Group.

FinOpsMulti-Agentic AIAzure FabricAzureGCP
Multi-Cloud
Enterprise

H&M Cloud Backbone

Multi-cloud platform backbone — 99.9% uptime SLA for 200+ teams. Cloud governance at Management Group level with Azure Policies & Sentinel for 50+ subscriptions.

AzureGoogle CloudGovernance
IDP
Enterprise

Internal Developer Platform

Self-service Internal Developer Platform reducing onboarding from days to minutes. EventGrid + Azure Functions workflows in TypeScript.

TypeScriptAzure FunctionsEventGrid
Zero Trust
Enterprise

Zero Trust Microservices

15+ Zero Trust microservices with sub-100ms p99 latency. High-throughput GraphQL & REST APIs handling 50K+ RPM on Azure + GKE.

Zero TrustGraphQLGKE
Volvo Monitoring
Enterprise

Volvo — Enterprise Monitoring

Enterprise observability — ELK, Grafana, Prometheus on AKS monitoring 100+ microservices. Reduced deployment cycle from hours to 15 minutes.

ElasticsearchGrafanaAKS
Enterprise AI

Ikano Bank — AML/KYC Modernisation

Led end-to-end migration of AML & KYC APIs to AWS serverless — 70% latency reduction. LLM-powered autonomous agent using AWS Bedrock + Claude Opus cutting migration time 60%. Serverless architecture handling 500K+ daily transactions.

AWS BedrockClaude OpusAWSAML/KYCAxwayAPI GatewayGitHub ActionsTerraformGen AI
Open Source

Rubin — Claude for VS Code

100% local AI coding assistant on Ollama. Streaming chat, 14-tool agent mode, MCP servers, inline completions — privacy-first.

TypeScriptVS CodeOllamaClaude
Open Source

OpenClaw Tesla — AI Vehicle

AI agent plugin for Tesla Fleet API. 21 voice actions — lock, climate, charging, sentry & more. Auto-wake, multi-vehicle.

TypeScriptTesla APIOAuthAI Agent

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