
Sandhya Gandalwar engineered infrastructure and policy improvements for the ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments repository, focusing on secure, maintainable cloud environments. She led Strapi 5 upgrades across multiple applications, migrating environments to PostgreSQL 17 RDS and decommissioning legacy resources to reduce operational risk. Using Terraform, YAML, and AWS, Sandhya implemented infrastructure as code best practices, including configuration cleanup, policy enforcement to prevent repository self-reviews, and flexible branch management to accelerate development cycles. Her work emphasized environment parity, secret management, and governance, resulting in more reliable deployments and streamlined maintenance. The depth of her contributions reflects strong DevOps and cloud platform expertise.

October 2025: Delivered targeted governance-enabled development efficiency for cloud-platform environments by implementing flexible branch management for hmpps-component-dependencies in the hmpps-portfolio-management-dev environment. This policy-as-code change enables faster development iterations while maintaining governance through explicit branch pattern controls and a clear commit trail.
October 2025: Delivered targeted governance-enabled development efficiency for cloud-platform environments by implementing flexible branch management for hmpps-component-dependencies in the hmpps-portfolio-management-dev environment. This policy-as-code change enables faster development iterations while maintaining governance through explicit branch pattern controls and a clear commit trail.
September 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Delivered critical Strapi-5 upgrade work and cleanup across production and development environments, concentrating on Strapi-5 with PostgreSQL 17 RDS and decommissioning legacy infra.
September 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Delivered critical Strapi-5 upgrade work and cleanup across production and development environments, concentrating on Strapi-5 with PostgreSQL 17 RDS and decommissioning legacy infra.
July 2025: Completed Strapi 5 upgrade rollout across hmpps-developer-portal, hmpps-service-catalogue, and hmpps-portfolio-management with staging/test environments, infrastructure updates, TLS/certs alignment, and Terraform module upgrades. Implemented environment naming changes and added dedicated staging namespace for portfolio-management. Fixed a series of configuration issues during the upgrade (certificate/secret naming, RDS secret handling, and removal of duplicates). Created an RDS PostgreSQL 17 instance for testing and updated db_engine_version to 17 in production paths. This work reduces risk, improves security, and accelerates release readiness by delivering consistent environments and up-to-date tech stack.
July 2025: Completed Strapi 5 upgrade rollout across hmpps-developer-portal, hmpps-service-catalogue, and hmpps-portfolio-management with staging/test environments, infrastructure updates, TLS/certs alignment, and Terraform module upgrades. Implemented environment naming changes and added dedicated staging namespace for portfolio-management. Fixed a series of configuration issues during the upgrade (certificate/secret naming, RDS secret handling, and removal of duplicates). Created an RDS PostgreSQL 17 instance for testing and updated db_engine_version to 17 in production paths. This work reduces risk, improves security, and accelerates release readiness by delivering consistent environments and up-to-date tech stack.
June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Focused on IaC hygiene and policy governance. Delivered Terraform configuration cleanup for hmpps_github_discovery, fixed a module name typo, and added a prevent_self_review parameter to enforce policy against repository self-reviews. These changes improve reliability, reduce misconfigurations, and strengthen security posture across cloud-platform-environments.
June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/cloud-platform-environments: Focused on IaC hygiene and policy governance. Delivered Terraform configuration cleanup for hmpps_github_discovery, fixed a module name typo, and added a prevent_self_review parameter to enforce policy against repository self-reviews. These changes improve reliability, reduce misconfigurations, and strengthen security posture across cloud-platform-environments.
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