NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Naga Subrahmanyam Cherukupalle is an accomplished Principal Architect with over 17 years of experience leading large-scale enterprise infrastructure modernization with a core focus on cybersecurity, AI-driven orchestration, and hybrid cloud resilience. His work is rooted in designing secure, scalable environments across regulated industries including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.

A major highlight of his cybersecurity leadership is the design and implementation of quantum-resilient cloud systems. His 2024 publication, *Quantum-Resilient Cloud Systems: Preemptive Shielding Against Post-Quantum Cryptographic Threats*, outlines a forward-looking strategy to harden enterprise workloads against next-gen cryptographic attacks using AI models and NLP-based compliance logic. This aligns directly with global cybersecurity concerns and shows his foresight in cloud-native defense.

Naga is the inventor of the Multi-Cloud Compliance and Audit Assistant Device (UK Patent #644354), which dynamically maps cloud configurations to regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001. The device enables continuous compliance monitoring across AWS, Azure, and VMware platforms—automating what were once complex manual audits.

In 2023, he architected an AI-powered policy enforcement engine for VMware and AWS environments, integrating Terraform and Ansible to deploy regulatory-aware infrastructure-as-code modules. His paper, *Regulatory-Aware Terraform Modules for Multi-Cloud Provisioning*, showcases how this system reduces misconfiguration risks and enforces encryption, tagging, access control, and logging policies at scale.

His leadership also extends to DNS and IPAM lifecycle security. In another research piece, *Declarative IPAM and DNS Automation Using Infoblox NIOS and Terraform*, Naga built a secure, declarative approach for managing network identities across hybrid environments—reducing attack surfaces tied to DNS drift and manual mismanagement.

He has reviewed 10 international papers on cybersecurity and infrastructure governance for the ICAIC and ICSPER 2025 conferences, contributing to peer-based quality control in the field.
With advanced certifications such as AWS-SAP, VMware VCIX, Infoblox NIOS, CKA, and CKAD, Naga continues to build secure cloud and datacenter solutions that blend automation, compliance, and resilience. His contributions make him a standout candidate for the Cybersecurity Architect of the Year award.