Breaking the Silo – Scalable API Governance and Platform Automation with GitOps
Wednesday, 11:00 AM EST - SAND SALON
In this session, I’ll walk through how we helped a large enterprise address fragmented API
practices and inconsistent governance by building a platform-first approach to API delivery.
Teams were deploying microservices independently on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with no consistent routing, security, or visibility. We implemented a GitOps-powered framework that allowed teams to integrate a lightweight, Kubernetes-native gateway with their services, while inheriting organizational standards like rate limiting, JWT auth, routing consistency, and metadata tagging—without any manual ticketing or bottlenecks.
The platform approach enabled decentralized development with centralized governance,
accelerating service onboarding while ensuring every API remains secure, discoverable, and compliant by design.
About Sumir Arora
Sumir Arora is a Senior Solution Architect with 15+ years across cloud, integration, and platform engineering. His recent work sits at the intersection of platform engineering and AI—building agentic systems that bring autonomy to operational workflows like change management, troubleshooting, and API testing.
He designs for the hard part: letting automation scale without losing control. That means governance, guardrails, policy-as-code, and clear architectural boundaries—the things that make autonomous systems safe to run in production.