Akash Thakur is an internationally recognized Site Reliability Engineering leader and IT Architect with over 18 years of experience transforming mission-critical infrastructures across finance, healthcare, and public sector organizations. Currently serving as SRE Architect at Cognizant Canada, he has pioneered automation-first SRE strategies that have delivered measurable performance breakthroughs and millions in cost savings for Fortune 500 enterprises. His expertise spans cloud platforms (AWS