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Akhilesh Varma Gokaraju

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India23 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expertise in financial planning and investment advisory.
  • Strong background in network security and cloud computing.
  • Experience managing engineering teams and projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled professional in Fintech and Cloud Security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial Planning

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)C++Career CounselingCloud ComputingCore JavaCryptographyCybersecurityData ScienceEthical HackingGitHTTPLarge Language Models (LLM)LinuxMachine LearningManagement

About

Interested in financial planning, economics, psychology, agriculture.. Goal to work on any/all of these..

Experience

Google

Staff Network Test Engineer

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos

Self employed

SEBI Registered Investment Adviser - Registration No. INA000020299

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

Financial Planning

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Aug 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana

  • Interested in Gen AI applications, financial markets, macro-economics and agriculture. Currently dabbling in financial markets..

Google

Senior Networking Test Engineer

Jun 2021Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · India · Hybrid

  • Build, deploy and manage Google's internal SDN that handles multiple peta bytes of data ..

Ciphercloud

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2021May 2021 · 2 mos

  • As a Senior Engineering Manager for CASB and Cloud Data Protection products, developed support for enterprise cloud applications like SAP Successfactors, Office 365, GSuite, Box, etc.

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2016Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • I worked with both Development/QA Engineers and Architects to design, develop and test core platform features of the patented Cipher Cloud Security Gateway for enterprise cloud applications like Salesforce, SAP SuccessFactors, etc.

QA Manager

Apr 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad

  • As a Manager for the Platform QA team, I worked on the base/infrastructure components like Clustering, SSL, SMTP Services,etc. for the Cipher Cloud Data Protection suite of products, My focus was:
  • Efficient planning and execution to meet deliverables across multiple simultaneous releases
  • Review of Test Plans and Test Cases to ensure thoroughness and identification of defects as early as possible
  • Improving test coverage from customer deployments as well as through usage of code coverage tools
  • Increasing automation coverage to reduce cycle times and facilitate multiple development cycles
  • Developing and coaching team members, in achieving career growth, by focusing on learning and improvement of technical as well as soft skills

Ca

Manager, Scrum Master

Feb 2008Mar 2014 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • The APM (Application Performance Management) product also called as Wily, primarily monitors the performance of J2EE based applications and middleware including monitoring the following:
  • Application Servers like Websphere Application Server (WAS), Weblogic Application Server
  • Middleware like IBM Websphere MQ and Websphere Message Broker, Tibco BusinessWorks, Webmethods Integration Server, Oracle Service Bus and Websphere Process Server
  • I started of as a Team Lead and eventually managed the Powerpack component of APM with focus on SOA based products. Also performed the role of Scrum Master for non-functional requirements like Scalability, Security and Internationalization

Nokia india (consultant)

QA Lead/Manager

Feb 2004Jan 2008 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Led/Managed QA across various network security projects like Firewall/VPN, IPS and Security Certifications
  • Workedwith development to understand requirements, preparing Test Plans including prioritising features to test, test strategy, equipment required, resources required and schedule
  • Involved in hiring, shifting resources, reviewing performance, ensuring correct billing, protecting knowledge base etc.
  • Hands-on testing with features in each project like site-to-site VPN, SNMP, SSL VPN, etc.

Credit suisse first boston

Technical Associate

Jan 2002Dec 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York

  • Worked as an application administrator for the Network Management Suite of products like Spectrum, eHealth and Netcool. Wrote/maintained custom scripts for monitoring of application health, configuration network devices,etc

Education

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

PGDM

Jan 2013Jan 2015

New Jersey Institute of Technology

M.S — Telecommunications

Jan 2000Jan 2001

Fr.C.R.I.T, Vashi

B.E — Telecommunications

Jan 1995Jan 1999

Swami Vivekananda Junior College

H.S.C — science

Jan 1993Jan 1995

New Bombay High School

Jan 1988Jan 1993

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