Security First, Customer Always!
I'm Abi / Abhi
(Abhijith Gopakumar)
I'm a senior software engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure, network security, backend API design, database management, network management and workflow pipelines.
Since 2022, I have been working at QuesTek Innovations in the role of cloud engineer. Prior to that, I was the main developer at OQMD.org - one of the largest production-level material databases in the world.
Experience ⚙️
13+ years of general programming (as of 2025)
5+ years of backend API/DBMS engineering
3+ years of cloud computing and web deployments
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate (certificate)
Specialization on Architecting with Google Cloud (certification)
Cloud Engineering & API Development
Programming & Development:
Object-Oriented Programming, Event-driven programming, Asynchronous programming
Advanced: Python, SQL
Intermediate: C++, Golang
API & Database Management:
API engineering, REST API, Django Framework
Relational Databases, Database Management System (DBMS)
Cloud Computing & Web Deployments:
Cloud Computing, Load Balancing, Disaster Recovery, Network Firewalls, Storage Optimization
On-premises to Cloud Migration, Downtime-less system management, Latency reduction
Web hosting, Containerization, Artifact management
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Infrastructure cost optimization, Scalable resource deployments
DevOps & Automation:
Cloud DevOps – AWS Pipelines, CodeCommit, Deployments
GitHub Actions, GItHub Advanced Security
Containerized deployments (Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes)
Programming and debugging with Linux Shell/Bash & Windows PowerShell
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Cybersecurity:
API and infrastructure risk analysis, threat detection, attack detection, remediation, recovery, and reporting
Network Isolation, Cloud Organization and Access Control
Cybersecurity compliance readiness for CMMC and SOC2
Drata, Sentry, AWS GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, AWS WAF & Shield, AWS Organizations
Monitoring & Management:
Job/Workflow Management
API and server monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry)
Toolset
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
(GCP)
Linux
Windows Server & PowerShell
PostgreSQL, SQL, MySQL, SQLite, DBMS
Kubernetes container deployment
(K8s, GKE)
Python Language
Docker, Containerization
GitHub Actions, Circle-CI, Dependabot, GH Advanced Security
Drata, SEcurity Compliance, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Django Web Framework
Datadog
Sentry
Docker, Containerization
Grafana
Postman
Kali (ethical)
Redis data-store
Additional Skills
Deterministic & Stochastic Machine Learning
ANNs (Deep/Shallow Learning, GANs, Graph NNs, Transfer Learning), Gaussian Processes (GPR, Kriging, Co-kriging), SVMs, Random Forests, Linear Models, Data Pipelines, Small-data/Big data ML
Applied Statistical Optimization
Bayesian optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Monte Carlo, Pareto Fronts, Model Uncertainty Quantification,
Exploration-Exploitation balancing, Multi-objective optimization
Tools
