Santhosh G K — Engineering Manager

I am an Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling cloud platforms, distributed systems and enterprise software products. I lead high-performance engineering teams and deliver platform modernization, reliability, and execution excellence at scale. I have led engineering teams of up to 15 engineers and driven improvements in delivery velocity, engineering efficiency and system reliability. At VMware, I led engineering for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lifecycle automation services and improved upgrade reliability from 70% to 98%, while also achieving 95%+ automation coverage through CI/CD and quality engineering maturity. I bring hands-on depth across distributed system design, microservices architecture, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, and large-scale backend platforms. My engineering leadership philosophy is built on ownership, clarity, measurable outcomes and technical excellence. I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, building reliable and scalable platforms, and growing strong engineering teams that deliver impact. Core Skills: Core Java, Multithreading, J2EE, Hibernate 3.X, Spring 4.X, Spring Boot 4.X, Scala 2. X, Struts 2.0, EJB 3.1, JPA 2.1, Liferay 6.1, Eclipse Plug-in Development, XML, JBPM, RESTful Web Services, SOA, MongoDB, Mule ESB 3.7, Python 3.X, ZooKeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, Redis, Node.js, Express.js, and Golang Virtualization: VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere, VMware NSX and vRealize suite. Very good in Data Structures and Algorithms Public Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure AI Framework : LangChain

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering Leader specializing in Cloud Platforms and Distributed Systems.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 20 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Cloud Platforms
Engineering Management
Backend Architecture
Software Engineering

Career Highlights

20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Improved upgrade reliability from 70% to 98%.
Achieved 95%+ automation coverage through CI/CD.

Work Experience

VMware

Engineering Manager / Senior Individual Contributor (4 yrs 9 mos)

Tesco

Technical Architect (SDE - III) (9 mos)

Swoo

Engineering Manager (7 mos)

VMware

Senior Member of Technical Staff (5 yrs 1 mo)

Sabre Holdings

Sr. Software Engineer (2 yrs 8 mos)

Misys

Senior Software Engineer (10 mos)

Ness Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (9 mos)

Symphony Services

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)

SPAN Systems

Software Engineer (7 mos)

Radiant Info Systems Ltd

Software Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)

Education

MCA at Karnatak University

Bachelor of Computer Applications at Karnatak Science College

Santhosh G K

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Improved upgrade reliability from 70% to 98%.
Achieved 95%+ automation coverage through CI/CD.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering Leader specializing in Cloud Platforms and Distributed Systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud PlatformsEngineering ManagementBackend ArchitectureSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

API ArchitectureAPI DesignAPI designAPI performanceAgile DeliveryAgile MethodologiesApache CXFApache FlinkApache KafkaApache PhoenixCI/CDCassandraContinuous ImprovementCore JavaData Structures

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Experience

Vmware

Engineering Manager / Senior Individual Contributor

Sep 2020 – Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

I led engineering for lifecycle automation services in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), a large-scale hybrid cloud platform deployed across global enterprise data centers and private clouds. I owned engineering execution, system architecture direction, delivery governance and stakeholder alignment while growing a strong engineering team culture.
Led a 12-member cross-functional engineering team across backend and DevOps
Improved delivery velocity by driving execution rhythm and predictable delivery processes
Increased automation coverage to 95%+ through CI/CD maturity and quality engineering practices
Improved customer upgrade success rate from 70% → 98% by strengthening platform reliability
Collaborated with Product Management and Architecture to deliver long-term platform roadmap
Modernized platform components using distributed microservices (Spring Boot)
Built a strong engineering culture through hiring, mentorship and technical leadership

VMware Cloud Foundationlifecycle automation servicesCI/CDplatform reliabilitymicroservicesengineering culture+2

Tesco

Technical Architect (SDE - III)

Dec 2019 – Sep 2020 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Contributed to the design and development of the coupon generation and redemption platform used across Tesco’s global e-commerce ecosystem. Focused on backend performance, distributed architecture, reliability and clean engineering practices.
Re-architected legacy components into microservices to improve scalability and deployment speed
Improved API performance by 10–15% through async programming
Designed REST-based distributed backend services for high-traffic campaigns
Improved technical quality through code reviews, reusable frameworks and API standards
Mentored junior engineers to strengthen engineering quality and delivery

microservicesAPI performancebackend performancedistributed architectureBackend ArchitectureSoftware Engineering

Swoo

Engineering Manager

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019 · 7 mos

Led backend engineering for Swoo, a large-scale real-time live streaming and social gaming platform. Owned backend architecture, latency improvement and system scalability while leading a high-energy engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment.
Led a 7-member engineering team across backend feature delivery and platform evolution
Reduced live streaming latency by 40% through media pipeline optimization and CDN tuning
Scaled platform to 1M+ active users with high concurrency and sub-second response times
Designed distributed backend architecture using Go, Redis, Kafka and AWS
Improved system reliability, monitoring and auto-scaling capabilities
Introduced engineering quality standards through code reviews and design best practices

backend architecturelatency improvementsystem scalabilityBackend ArchitectureEngineering Management

Vmware

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Dec 2013 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Contributed to the engineering of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), working on core Day-N lifecycle management services and backend orchestration capabilities used by enterprise customers globally.
Designed and developed distributed services for cluster and infrastructure lifecycle automation
Improved deployment success and service reliability through task orchestration and recovery logic
Optimized service performance through async execution models, API tuning and JVM optimization
Led modularization and refactoring of key components to reduce tech debt and improve maintainability
Built integration between lifecycle services and VMware ecosystem products (vSphere, NSX, vSAN)
Mentored engineers and contributed to engineering best practices through design reviews and code standards

distributed servicestask orchestrationservice reliabilityCloud PlatformsSoftware Engineering

Sabre holdings

Sr. Software Engineer

Apr 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Worked across engineering teams in product development and enterprise application engineering environments. Built strong fundamentals in backend engineering, distributed systems, API development and software quality.
Gained hands-on experience in:
Backend development using Java and distributed technologies
API design, integration and service delivery
Software design principles and SDLC in product teams
Agile development and engineering best practices

backend developmentAPI designsoftware qualitySoftware EngineeringBackend Architecture