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Priya Sharma
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Priya Sharma

VP of Cloud Engineering

Priya Sharma oversees cloud transformation initiatives at Plaxonic, bringing a decade of experience architecting and migrating enterprise workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP for Fortune 500 clients.

BIOGRAPHY

Priya Sharma is the Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Plaxonic Technologies, where she leads cloud-native transformation programs for global enterprise clients. With over a decade of hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, Priya has architected and delivered large-scale cloud migrations and modernization initiatives for Fortune 500 organizations.

Her career spans infrastructure engineering, platform architecture, and cloud strategy consulting. Before Plaxonic, she served as a Principal Cloud Architect at a Big Four consulting firm, helping financial institutions and healthcare organizations navigate complex multi-cloud strategies while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Priya is an AWS Solutions Architect Professional and Google Cloud Fellow. She holds a B.Tech in Computer Engineering from NIT Trichy and an MBA from ISB Hyderabad. She regularly contributes to open-source cloud-native projects and speaks at KubeCon, CloudNativeDay, and AWS Community Days.

At Plaxonic, Priya leads a cross-functional team of 40+ cloud engineers focused on Kubernetes orchestration, serverless architecture, FinOps optimization, and building resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms for enterprises at scale.

Areas of Expertise

Cloud-Native ArchitectureKubernetes & ContainersMulti-Cloud StrategyFinOpsServerless ComputingCloud Migration

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Role

VP of Cloud Engineering

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Company

Plaxonic Technologies

PUBLISHED WORK

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The Cloud-Native Imperative: Beyond Lift-and-Shift

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