# Nari M > Principal Engineer | Platform Architecture & Distributed Systems | Cloud, Data, AI Platforms Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/narim * Principal Engineer | Platform Architect with 16+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and data infrastructure across AWS and GCP. * Early engineer and foundational architect at Ironclad, leading infrastructure, security, and data platforms powering enterprise-grade AI products. Work spans multi-region cloud architecture, data platforms, developer productivity, and enterprise security and compliance. * Proven track record in enterprise readiness, cost optimization, developer productivity, and cross-team technical leadership, including building high-performing engineering teams. Areas of focus: Cloud & platform architecture • AI Infrastructure • Distributed systems • Data platforms • Kubernetes • Security & compliance • Cost optimization • Reliability Engineering • Developer productivity • Data lake • Data warehouse • Technical Leadership & Mentorship Languages: Go, Python, Java, TypeScript Systems: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE & EKS), BigQuery, Dataflow, Mesos (DC/OS), Nomad, Consul, Vault, Mongo, Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, Elasticsearch Tools & Frameworks: Terraform, Packer, Chef, Git, CircleCI Cloud providers: Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Amazon Web Services(AWS) ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Ironclad, Inc. Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area * Foundational architect responsible for infrastructure, data, security, and backend platform architecture across AWS and GCP. * Designed and scaled multi-region, highly available cloud architectures, balancing security, reliability, performance, and operational complexity. * Working on data platforms and pipelines powering AI-driven features including embeddings, Jurist, and conversational search. * Led design and rollout of CI/CD systems and developer productivity platforms, including ephemeral environments and configuration management. * Drove enterprise readiness initiatives including BYOK, monitoring, and data governance. * Designed systems and scaled with sustained cloud COGS under 4% while supporting growth from Series B to Series E. * Represented architecture and security in enterprise customer and security reviews; authored and maintained official architecture documentation. * Blogpost on Terraform design: https://ironcladapp.com/journal/engineering/engineering-spotlight-terraform-and-multi-tier-architecture/ ### Principal Member of the Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto CA * Led infrastructure architecture for SalesforceIQ, supporting products across Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Einstein. * Designed and built the SalesforceIQ AWS platform, integrating large-scale stream and batch processing systems with NoSQL databases. * Desgined and built a Mesos/Nomad-based deployment platform enabling zero-downtime deployments and automated AWS provisioning. * Designed and built a synthetic test framework to run central service availability checks across all services in Salesforce which later evolved to a greenfield project in the monitoring cloud. * Built configuration management platforms used across Salesforce data centers. * Championed adoption of Consul, Vault, and Nomad, modernizing service discovery, configuration, and secrets management. Technologies: Terraform, Nomad, Docker, Mesos(DC/OS), Kubernetes, Marathon, Chronos, Consul, Kafka, Storm, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Terraform, Packer, Chef, Go, Python. ### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 * Worked on self service test and release pipelines leveraging docker & jenkins for continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) of infrastructure products. - Worked on building/improving monitoring platforms to handle billions of metrics. - Worked on adding utility functions to kafka. - https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/selfservice-secure-test-and-release-pipelines/70827905 Technologies/Tools: Java, Groovy, Kafka, Graphite, openTSDB ### Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 - Worked on development of datacenter orchestration engine for managing virtual machines (KVM) and configuring network resources: load balancer (BigIP). - Worked on building continuous deployment pipelines - Worked on Smoke test framework for IaaS platform. Technologies/Frameworks: Java, Python, OSGI, KVM ### Associate Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 - Worked on development of central configuration management system for Salesforce.com Technologies: Java, Spring, Hibernate ### Software Intern @ Salesforce Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 - Developed an internal reporting tool for Storage area network ### Software Intern @ Tap 'n Tap Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Cambride, MA, USA. Technologies: Android, Java, OpenGL, SQLite3. • Worked on Customization of Android for tablets. • Worked on enhancements of user Interface & browsing experience for Android tablets. • Developed functionality for various finger gestures in 'Photos' application in Android. • Worked on GUI enhancements of 'Gallery3D' and 'Settings' applications in Android using OpenGL. • Customized the alert notification framework of Android OS for tablets. • Developed Music application widget for the Android tablet home screen. ## Education ### MS in Computer Science University of Florida ### B.E in Information and Communication Technology Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology(DA-IICT) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/inari6 - Portfolio: https://inari6.medium.com/ - Portfolio: https://engineering.ironcladapp.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/narim JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/narim/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12