Santhosh A

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global teams in innovative data engineering solutions.
Drove Kubernetes adoption for enhanced scalability.
Achieved significant cloud cost reductions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data engineering and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringApi DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

ApacheApache AirflowApache FlinkArgoCDBashCloud ComputingData PipelineData QualityDataplexETLElasticsearchFreeBSDHigh AvailabilityJavaScriptKubeflow

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• A self-starting individual, with good decision-making and problem-solving capabilities applicable to diverse business challenges and environments. • Ability to communicate with customers, peers, and business persons in a friendly, effective and influential manner.

Experience

Walmart global tech india

2 roles

Director Software Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

replenishment engineering

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

The role presented a unique green field opportunity as senior EM.
Led a dynamic, globally distributed engineering team in abstracting the Extract and Load components of the ETL process, facilitating engineers without prior ETL/data pipeline expertise to create pipelines within days instead of weeks. Orchestrated the delivery of this service leveraging Apache Airflow and enhanced data visibility through DQAF using Dataplex. Collaborated cross-functionally to establish a unified data model, enabling Data Analytics and Data Sciences teams to obtain valuable insights into competitor pricing.
Established a team that Designed and built a catalog store, storing and serving competitor pricing insights using Apache Flink and Elasticsearch. Co-authored a paper detailing window aggregation features, CDC notion, and system performance aspects, reaching the finals of Walmart's prestigious yearly tech conference.
Led a team in creating an API serving layer for the catalog store using WebFlux, a non-blocking, reactive programming paradigm. This design was necessitated by the large query run by consumers needing high throughput.
Owned Engineering and Operational excellence for the organization (both with VP-level visibility). Reduced cloud costs by ~30%.

Apache AirflowData QualityDataplexElasticsearchWebFluxData Engineering+1

Unbxd inc

Director Of Engineering, Platforms

Mar 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As a Director of Engineering, bootstrapped multiple teams from the ground up, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. key achievements include leading Kubernetes and microservice adoption initiatives, driving efficiency and scalability across our product portfolio.
restructed an existing Professional Services Engineering team, implementing full-stack engineering practices that streamlined customer onboarding processes and enhanced transparency. Established a Platform Engineering team, instrumental in redesigning and optimizing our auto-scaled catalogue processing engine and search query serving layer.
Introduced MLops, rolled out Kubeflow and implemented cost-efficient model training practices, ensuring optimal resource utilization. Furthermore, directly managed a high-performing SRE team, overseeing the seamless transition from self-hosted Kubernetes to managed services and facilitating continuous deployment with ArgoCD.
I guided a team through the successful completion of SOC2 Type II attestation, accelerating our sales cycle and bolstering our security posture. Additionally, I've contributed individually to cloud management, product security, compliance initiatives, and cost control measures across our cloud infrastructure, driving operational excellence at every level.

KubernetesMicroservicesMLOpsKubeflowArgoCDPlatform Engineering+1

Sap labs india

Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

part of altiscale acquisition

Altiscale

Software Engineer

Apr 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

Software engineer in SRE building control plane for managing some of the largest deployments on hadoop and spark clusters.
key member of a team which built orchestration platforms for creating, autoscaling Hadoop cluster OnDemand
designed and implemented a certificate based authentication system(internal CA) for internal services

[24]7.ai

Tech lead

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Bootstrapped engineer productivity team

Yahoo!

Senior Sytems Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jun 2013 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Led automation initiatives aimed at deploying, securing, and optimizing Yahoo's media platforms, focusing on enhancing performance and efficiency.
Worked closely with caching, NOC, and traffic teams to ensure uninterrupted service availability and reliability for end users.
Conducted capacity analysis and devised scaling strategies to manage holiday season peak traffic, addressing challenges such as DDoS attacks and automating data center migrations.
Engineered tools and automation solutions to tackle recurrent customer issues within Yahoo Small Business, resulting in improved operational efficiency and reduced resolution times for customer concerns.