Venkat Krishnan N

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams for major tech companies.
  • Delivered innovative features in high-demand sectors.
  • Expert in building scalable and reliable systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Media Engineering Leader with extensive experience in scalable systems.

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About

Experienced Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of building Highly Scalable and Reliable systems across Security, Advertisement, OTT, Food Tech in both Desktop & Mobile Apps. Skilled in OS Development, Apps Development, Big Data, Mobile Tech, Agile Methodologies, Tools Development, Backend & Frontend Test Automation, CI / CD solutions & SRE best practices. Languages known - C++, C#, Java, Go, Python Cloud platforms - AWS & Azure Strong Technical professional with hands-on experience across Development, Testing, SRE & DevOps with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from one the top colleges in the country - College Of Engineering, Anna University - [CEG], Chennai

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Building cutting edge experiences & customer delights, for over a billion devices as part of the Windows + Devices Org, with a team of highly enthusiastic & passionate engineers.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2020Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Currently contributing as an Engineering Leader in the Windows Shell SWE Team as part of the Windows OS Development Org at Microsoft India Development Center (IDC), Gachibowli - MS Campus, Hyderabad
  • Contributed as an Engineering leader in the MS Defender Org building features and infra (SWE & SRE roles) for Microsoft Defender for Office (MDO) & Microsoft Defender for Application (MDA) products at Microsoft India Development Centre (IDC), KP Towers, Noida

Swiggy

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2020Dec 2020 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Worked as part of the Revenue & Growth POD.
  • Lead a team of 15+ passionate engineers delivering Feature Development, Proactive & Reactive Engineering projects as part of Swiggy's New Initiatives & RnG verticals.
  • Big bets projects delivered:
  • Instamart
  • Slotted Delivery
  • Genie for Business
  • Alcohol delivery
  • Swiggy Super

Disney+ hotstar

Engineering Manager

Jun 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Started off with developing the next gen Ads platform (SSAI platform) for major live events (IPL, WC etc) from scratch and hired some of the best team members to create a team of full fledged ad tech platform engineers
  • Additional responsibility of leading the Platform Engineering team with a small group of enthusiastic individuals.
  • Owned the IPL Chaos & Perf Engg framework for 2 IPLs.
  • I also lead the v-team of engineers working across Social, Ads & User Management.
  • Managed a team size of 10+ talented engineers and built a lot of products from scratch.
  • Delivered projects like Ads platform, Hotstar Perf Lab, ESPN Integration with Hotstar, Disney+ launch, Server side Ads Platform, Hotstar Social Platform with Messages, Pics & Meme sharing etc.

Inmobi

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2017Jun 2018 · 11 mos

  • Was promoted for my continuous efforts and consistent achievements as a Manager & became the overall gatekeeper for iDSP (Inmobi DSP) which was the biggest bet the company had made at that time.
  • Helped the initiative deliver $20k/day when exiting the quarter.
  • Started to manage and deliver hands-on initiatives across various teams like UI, Mobile Ads & Middleware teams. Was managing a team of 14+ enthusiastic engineers in my period as an Engineering Manager.

Technical Lead

May 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • As the team size grew in IFC, lead the overall efforts with the help of a team.
  • Was part of delivery of multiple end to end projects such as Yahoo Search Syndication integration, E-commerce integration with top players across SEA, the US & India, DS Recommendation models etc.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jun 2013May 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Worked in an early stage incubation team - Inmobi for Commerce (IFC)

Mcafee

Senior Software Engineer Research Development

Jun 2011Jun 2013 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Extensive Research and Quick Prototyping of new ideas in McAfee Android Suite by using scalable & sustainable design patterns & by following best coding practices

Symantec

Software Engineer

Jul 2009Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • Worked in the Norton product suite (NIS/NAV/N360) Dev Team as Software Engineer 2 yrs at Symantec IDC, Chennai. Saw through many successful releases of NIS, NAV and N360 playing a major role as an entry level dev engineer in at least 7 releases of Norton Add-On Pack.

Education

College of Engineering, Guindy

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Alpha Matriculation school

Petit Seminaire Higher Secondary School, Pondicherry

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