Swapnil Bhatkar is a cloud engineer at NREL. He currently supports the research cloud infrastructure for different NREL research groups where he assists scientists, researchers, and developers to build proactive systems, develop modern applications using microservices and serverless patterns, and more importantly, secure their systems and data in the cloud. He is leading the cloud training initiative to teach cloud computing to staff across the lab by building a training portal for hands-on laboratories and develop content related to core cloud services. His primary focus is on cloud security where he wants to set up a centralized security governance for the organization to improve its security posture using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s cyber requirements and a cloud security reference architecture build for a “zero-trust” initiative in accordance with a recent federal executive order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity.

Research Interests

Cloud security, management, and governance

Hybrid workloads and research infrastructure

Cloud architecture

Education

M.S., Management of Technology, New York University

B.E., Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Mumbai

Certifications

Amazon Web Services Security Specialty

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate

Professional Experience

HPC Systems Administrator, New York Structural Biology Center (2018–2021)

Software Engineer, Capgemini (2015–2016)

Associations and Memberships

AWS Community Builder,  Amazon Web Services

Featured Work

Strategies for Data Flow and Storage for High Throughput, High Resolution CryoEM Data Collection, Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019)

Stion-A Software as a Service for Cryo-EM Data Processing on AWS, Amazon Web Services HPC Blogs (2021)

Management and Governance at Scale, U.S. Department of Energy Fusion Conference (2022)

Scale Computing Environments for Cryo-EM Workloads, AWS Public Sector Summit 2021 (2021)