Koushik Chakravarty

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 16 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expertise in building foundational platform infrastructure.
Strong focus on privacy and security in cloud solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on security and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityTechnical LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

3GAMQPAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsArchitectureArchitecturesCC++ClearCaseCloud ComputingCoAPData StructuresDebuggingEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded Systems

About

Experienced Engineering Leader with over 16 years in the industry. Currently building critical Foundational Platform Infrastructure with a strong emphasis on privacy and security. Adept at building teams from scratch, numerous times, setting up team culture and organizational success.

Experience

Google

4 roles

Senior Staff Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Leading a large engineering effort in building a brand new GCP wide application and agentic centric Foundational Graph Infrastructure for rich contextual visualisation of varied business use cases. The graph is capable of xx billion nodes and xxx billion edges.
Also a core approver in GCP wide privacy working group assisting product teams with privacy consultations and approvals.

Cloud SecurityTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementEngineering Management

Staff Engineering Manager

Nov 2023 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Currently:
Leading a large engineering effort in building a brand new GCP wide application and agentic centric Foundational Graph Infrastructure for rich contextual visualisation of varied business use cases. The graph is capable of xx billion nodes and xxx billion edges.
Also a core approver in GCP wide privacy working group assisting product teams with privacy consultations and approvals.
Previous:*
Built the v1 of Fine Grained data access authorization capability in GCP’s Identity and Access Management platform.

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipPeople ManagementCloud Security

Technical Lead and Manager

Promoted

May 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

Leading engineering efforts and setting technical direction in 2 product lines in Cloud Security.

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipSoftware DesignPeople ManagementSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Dec 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Tech Lead and Member of GCP Security.

Technical LeadershipSoftware DesignSoftware Development

Cisco

Software Enginner IV

Feb 2016 – Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Team Lead and Developer in the Anyconnect Endpoint Security Product with a team of 4-6 engineers. Primary areas: Identity and Access and Network Footprint analysis
Process coach (Agile Scrum and Kanban) and Scrum master

Citrix

Senior Software Engineer 1

Dec 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

Working with the Xenserver Development team with Technical Leadership role -
Contribute to Xenserver open source software project in both Dom0’s Ring0 and Ring3 (Management) Layers.
Design and Implementation of features in Xenserver.
Triage, Coordinate and Fix issues in Xenserver – both internal as well as Customer escalations
Support Partner team with periodic drops of Driver disks spins
Lead the development activities
Lead Release, Sprint Planning of the development activities locally.
Provide help in recruitment and expansion of the team.

Radisys corporation

Lead Engineer

Jun 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Involved in implementation of an end-to-end system to comply to the ETSI M2M Architecture specifications. Being one of the pillars of the team, have been radical in the thought leadership in the domain with 4 white papers and contributions to the ETSI M2M Specifications and IoT.
Architecture considerations for Virtualization and Cloud with hands-on experience on openStack and AMQP.
Strong command over IETF CoAP and LWM2M
Highly involved in customer facing and negotiation. Currently involved with a Team of 10.

Alcatel lucent india ltd.

Software Engineer

Mar 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

UMTS NodeB CallProcessing module. Have worked on the Call Processing, admission and maintenance of a 3G call with excellent data rates. Have worked on both traditional development and Agile strategies. Have interacted with other subsystems, resolved major bugs and handled customer relations.
Used C / C++ technologies and acquired knowledge of low level systems and RTOS ( VxWorks). Have been exposed to cutting -edge technologies like UMTS, HSxPA, WCDMA, etc.

Honeywell technology solutions, inc.

Engineer Trainee - Internship

Sep 2008 – Mar 2009 · 6 mos

Attended an exhaustive training program on application level technologies that varied from small to very large multi-tier architectures.
Appreciated the concept of developing black-box,full leveraged de-coupled modules using Object Oriented concepts. Learned various platforms viz, Unix, Linux, Windows and how each one has its own grounds to cover. Have also been trained and certified as a Six-sigma green belt professional with high quality of delivered work and deadline meet-up.