Cloud · DevOps · Cybersecurity · Software Engineering · AI

Kappy Prasad

Tech entrepreneur and engineer with 18+ years across networking, cloud, DevOps and security. These days I spend most of my time building with AI: agents that do real work, automations that remove busywork, and the infrastructure that keeps them reliable.

Worked with 100+ companies as a consultant, including
  • McDonald's
  • Meta
  • Coca-Cola
  • Disney
  • Delta Air Lines
  • American Express
  • Qantas
  • Virgin Atlantic
  • KFC
  • Burger King
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Jack in the Box
  • Stanford University
  • Woolworths
  • Boyd Gaming
  • Florida Panthers
  • Sonic Automotive
  • Treasury Wine Estates
  • Parsons
  • Waste Connections
  • Cleanaway
  • Hoyts
  • Event Entertainment Group
  • Frucor
  • Countdown
  • Monash University
  • University of Queensland
  • NBN Co
  • Air Tahiti Nui
  • Royal Air Maroc
  • NSW Health
  • Queensland Government
  • Queensland Ambulance Service
  • State Emergency Service
  • Helloworld Travel
  • Honest to Goodness
Articles

Writing on AI and engineering

Use cases

Use case 013 min read

Safe AI adoption for engineering teams

Rolling out an enterprise AI coding assistant behind company identity, with guardrails that made the safe path the easy one, then using it to automate the IT team's own manual work.

ClaudeSSO / SAMLSCIMAudit loggingPython
Use case 023 min read

Security governance and incident response from zero

Standing up a security governance and incident response capability aligned to a national cyber security framework, then proving it through live incidents and exercises, not just audits.

ISO 27001:2022SOC 2Incident ResponseVantaCrowdStrike
Use case 032 min read

Multi-cloud infrastructure as code

Moving infrastructure across GCP, AWS and Azure into reviewed, pipeline-driven code, and running multi-tenant Kubernetes for multiple customers on the same foundations.

TerraformKubernetesHelmGCPAWS
Use case 043 min read

Workforce scheduling SaaS at global scale

Taking a shift management platform from serving individual customers to a global rollout for one very large enterprise, by hardening delivery, automating the path to production and rebuilding support around real KPIs.

KubernetesHelmTerraformGitHub ActionsGitLab CI
Use case 052 min read

Cloud cost optimization

Cutting engineering cost by 20% by making cloud spend visible, owned and reviewed, without trading away reliability or delivery speed.

FinOpsCost allocationGCPAWSAzure
Use case 062 min read

Network automation on a global backbone

Python tooling that logged into core routers, ran the standard diagnostics and returned a clean summary, taking the repetitive work out of 24×7 operations on a global MPLS/IP backbone.

PythonJuniperCiscoBGPMPLS
Use case 072 min read

Clustered hosting platform on AWS

Founding, building and running a clustered hosting platform on AWS for small and medium businesses, with the engineering, the budget and the team all owned end to end.

AWSEC2cPanel / WHMDNS clusteringLinux
About

Engineer, founder, consultant.

I started in networking and infrastructure, moved through software, cloud and security, and founded companies along the way. As a consultant I've worked with more than 100 companies across enterprise, government, healthcare, education and startups. Now I'm putting that foundation to work on AI.

Certifications

Google Cloud Certified Solutions ArchitectAWS Solutions Architect — AssociateAWS Cloud PractitionerCisco CCNABSc Computer Science

AI agents & automation

LLM-powered agents and workflows that take real actions — research, ops, content and code.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, GCP and Azure; Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD built to scale and stay up.

Security

DevSecOps, compliance and risk — shipping fast without leaving the door open.

Contact

Let's build something.

Advisory, collaboration, or just comparing notes on AI.