Prasad Domala

Cloud solutions architect and DevOps lead with 20 years in IT and the last decade in AWS. I am currently the sole architect and technical authority for a Sony-acquired e-sports platform, where I designed and built the entire AWS estate behind 300k+ monthly active users and 40k+ tournaments a month, and lead a team of five engineers. My work runs from architecture and migration strategy down to the CDK, Terraform and pipelines that make it real — serverless and microservices design, zero-downtime database and streaming migrations, multi-account governance, and the FinOps discipline that has taken six figures out of cloud and licensing bills. I have led migrations at scale before: 3,000+ workloads at Virgin Australia and a 100+ server middleware estate at BBC Capita. I hold 12 AWS certifications, including Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Engineer Professional, and I am an AWS Community Builder.

• Designed and built an entire production AWS landscape from scratch for an e-sports startup acquired by Sony — 100+ repositories and 50+ microservices running 24×7 behind 300k+ monthly active users.
• Executed zero-downtime migrations of DocumentDB → MongoDB Atlas and self-managed Kafka → Confluent Cloud, using dual-run replication, staged cutovers and tested rollback paths.
• Re-architected a legacy application at Origin Energy to serverless and microservices on AWS, removing $200k+ a year in licensing and support costs.
• Led the migration of a 100+ server middleware estate (Oracle DB, IAM, SOA, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere) to AWS at BBC Capita in two years, saving the client £200k+ in data-centre costs.
• Key engineer on the migration of 3,000+ workloads from on-premises to AWS at Virgin Australia.
• Dockerised and moved 50+ microservices from EC2 to ECS/Fargate with no downtime, and automated their full release process.
• Built the multi-account governance layer — centralised tagging across 40+ AWS accounts for business-unit cost attribution, plus a consolidated CloudWatch alarm dashboard used by 9 product squads.
• Repeatedly turned manual toil into tooling — including a central multi-account management application at DXC that removed at least 1.5 FTEs of effort.

1. Nov 2022 – Present

   Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer

   Sony Interactive Entertainment (Repeat.gg)Brisbane, Australia

   Sole architect and technical authority for every AWS and DevOps decision at Repeat.gg, an Australian e-sports startup acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2022 — a platform serving 300k+ monthly active users and 40k+ tournaments a month.

   • Architected and built the entire high-traffic AWS estate from scratch — EC2 Auto Scaling, ECS/Fargate, Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ, Lambda and API Gateway — sized for 24×7 availability and real-time result processing.
   • Own architecture governance for the platform: run POCs and evaluations of new AWS services and third-party products, make the build-versus-buy calls, and set the patterns the team builds to.
   • Executed zero-downtime migrations — DocumentDB → MongoDB Atlas and self-managed Kafka → Confluent Cloud — using dual-run replication, staged cutovers and tested rollback paths.
   • Dockerised and migrated 50+ microservices from EC2 to ECS/Fargate with no downtime, and standardised CI/CD across 100+ repositories with Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS CDK in TypeScript, applying blue-green deployments.
   • Designed the observability strategy — logs, metrics and alerting on Elasticsearch — and built ETL pipelines from DocumentDB and MySQL into S3 and Snowflake for analytics and reporting.
   • Built web-based developer portals surfacing application metrics and self-service infrastructure requests, reducing day-to-day dependency on the DevOps team.
   • Migrated a Sony application (Next.js frontend, Drupal CMS, MySQL) onto the platform — the proof point that Repeat's infrastructure could take over and maintain Sony workloads.
   • Maintain EC2 configuration across environments with Ansible, and deploy React Native / Expo mobile apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play.
   • Lead and mentor a team of 5 DevOps engineers, act as single point of contact for all cloud and DevOps issues, and document implementations and standards into the team knowledge base.

2. Sep 2019 – Oct 2022

   Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

   Origin EnergyBrisbane, Australia

   Key member of the Digital Platform & Architecture team within Origin Integrated Gas, designing and architecting cloud solutions across 9 product squads.

   • Architected and implemented the migration of a complex legacy application to serverless and microservices on AWS, saving Origin $200k+ a year in licensing and support costs.
   • Designed and built “Digital Monitor” — a React dashboard consolidating CloudWatch alarms across 40+ AWS accounts and alerting the owning squad — enabling proactive issue detection and avoiding outage costs.
   • Established Azure DevOps CI/CD patterns across multiple products, taking daily pipeline executions from tens to hundreds and increasing delivery velocity across squads.
   • Delivered a fully functional serverless backend for a React application in two weeks, establishing business confidence in the platform team's capability.
   • Implemented a centralised tagging solution across 40+ AWS accounts, giving the finance team accurate business-unit cost attribution.
   • Reported cloud spend monthly with costed optimisation recommendations, and reviewed SEMP submissions ahead of product releases.

3. Mar 2019 – Sep 2019

   Senior Cloud Engineer

   Virgin AustraliaBrisbane, Australia

   Joined Virgin Australia's Cloud Practice team to accelerate their cloud migration programme, making significant impact on VA's cloud landscape in a short tenure.

   • Key engineer on a programme migrating 3,000+ workloads from on-premises to AWS; redesigned legacy on-prem applications into serverless and microservices architectures.
   • Built internal tools to remove manual effort — AWS Cloud Inventory (keyword search across resources in every AWS account), Megaport Dashboard (bandwidth usage across all Direct Connect connections), SSM Params CLI and a Backup CLI.
   • Developed and maintained CI/CD patterns and pipelines with Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer and Makefiles, and built custom Docker image pipelines for mission-critical applications.
   • Ran POCs on cloud and third-party solutions with documented proposals setting out the business value of each, plus workshops and demos for developers, support teams and management.

4. Jan 2017 – Mar 2019

   Cloud Engineer

   DXC Technology — ANZ AWS PracticeAustralia

   Moved from DXC UK to the Australia and New Zealand AWS Practice, supporting multiple private and government clients through their cloud adoption journeys.

   • Identified the opportunity to centralise multi-account management and built an application to run daily tasks and checks across all client AWS accounts, cutting manual effort by at least 1.5 FTEs.
   • Implemented the migration of SAP workloads onto AWS.
   • Acted as client Account Manager — presenting solutions to management and technical teams, and producing documentation pitched at both technical and non-technical audiences.
   • Developed Lambda-based automation for patching, backups and reporting, and maintained CloudFormation templates for rapid deployment into client accounts.
   • Monitored client workloads continuously and delivered cost and performance optimisation recommendations; organised monthly “Tech Talks” demonstrating new AWS services and features.

5. Jan 2012 – Jan 2017

   Cloud Technical Consultant · Middleware Technical Lead

   DXC — BBC Capita TVL, UKUnited Kingdom

   Led cloud migration and middleware engineering for BBC Capita's TV Licensing workloads.

   • Led the migration of 100+ on-premises servers to AWS — Oracle Database, Oracle Identity & Access Management, Oracle SOA, Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere — completing the programme in two years, within target, and saving the client £200k+ in data-centre costs.
   • Re-architected existing middleware applications to suit AWS, and helped enterprise architects understand middleware complexity and dependencies in the context of the wider cloud strategy.
   • Led a team of 5 middleware engineers, and delivered DXC's first Oracle SOA implementation — running the POC on unfamiliar technology, convincing DXC and BBC Capita management to invest, then leading the team through delivery.
   • Built the monitoring system for the BBC Capita server fleet using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, and maintained Oracle WebCenter Content and WebCenter Sites.
   • Defined DR strategies, procedures and recovery plans; ran patching and critical updates across the middleware stack, and authored and maintained the support documentation.

6. May 2006 – Jan 2012

   Middleware, Citrix & IAM Consultant

   DXC (France / UK / India) & TCS IndiaFrance · United Kingdom · India

   Early-career roles across middleware engineering, Citrix and identity & access management.

   • Designed and implemented a Citrix solution migrating 300+ desktop environments at Arcelor Mittal, France.
   • Consolidated identity systems scattered across multiple platforms at Network Rail, UK into a single Oracle IAM and CA SiteMinder / Identity Minder solution, migrating existing identities with minimal user impact and streamlining joiner/leaver handling for the service desk.
   • Administered and upgraded Oracle Application Server, WebLogic and IBM WebSphere at DXC India, and built a Java auditing tool extracting server software and service metrics into compliance PDF reports.
   • Built the MIIS Reporting Tool (ASP.NET / MySQL) at TCS, cutting a daily hour-long reporting task to 3 minutes — awarded the GE Excellence Award.