Kumar Vaibhav Sharma is a cloud data platform engineer with 10 years in regulated financial services, where his focus is a question every institution faces: how to make compliance a byproduct of engineering delivery rather than an obstacle to it. At a Fortune 500 financial institution, he embeds audit controls directly into release pipelines cutting release cycle time by [55]% and compute costs by 40% while strengthening audit defensibility and built a production AI monitoring agent on GCP and BigQuery that took root-cause identification from hours to minutes. He has published on cloud platform modernization in regulated environments, and speaks at [DevOpsCon New York 2026 / etc.].