Surya Avirneni is a senior engineering leader and software engineer focused on cloud security, platform architecture, and identity-aware infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience in platform engineering, software delivery, cloud governance, and DevOps enablement, he has contributed to initiatives in Zero Trust workload identity, policy-as-code, secure CI/CD pipelines, and software supply chain integrity. His work includes designing cryptographic access models for multi-tenant delivery platforms, building multi-cloud enablement architectures, integrating SBOMs into automated pipelines, and developing frameworks that balance compliance with developer productivity. Surya is a co-inventor on several U.S. patents related to automation and operational intelligence and has been a featured speaker at technical conferences and enterprise engineering forums. He also appeared on a Techstrong TV panel during the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019, where he spoke about the role of automated runbooks in scaling operational excellence. His contributions have been cited in public media and adopted across large-scale technology environments.