Saradhi Potharaju

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India15 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of leadership experience in engineering.
  • Expert in CI/CD and API security practices.
  • Proven track record in optimizing software delivery.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on CI/CD and API security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Continuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Api SecurityC#

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAppDynamicsApplication Performance ManagementCC++Core JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData ValidationData WarehousingILMInformaticaJavaKerberosKubernetesLDAP

About

Harness enables enterprises to revolutionize software delivery processes through innovative continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and DevSecOps practices. As Senior Director of Customer Engineering, I help global organizations optimize developer experience, manage cloud costs, and unlock the full potential of modern engineering solutions. With over 15 years of leadership experience, my efforts center on strategic customer partnerships, architecture guidance, and seamless solution adoption. At Harness, the customer engineering team I lead serves as trusted advisors, empowering clients to achieve measurable outcomes through tailored strategies and advanced API security practices. My mission is to drive customer success by bridging cutting-edge technology with real-world business objectives, ensuring impactful and sustainable transformation.

Experience

Harness

Senior Director, Customer Engineering

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • I am a technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing customer engineering and solutions teams that bridge the gap between innovative software and real-world business outcomes. Currently serving as Senior Director of Customer Engineering at Harness, I partner with global enterprises to accelerate their software delivery, optimize developer experience, and unlock the full value of continuous delivery, cloud cost management, and modern DevOps practices.
  • At Harness, I lead a talented team of customer engineers who serve as trusted advisors—guiding customers through strategy, architecture, and adoption. My focus is on ensuring customer success at every stage of the journey, from evaluation to enterprise-scale rollout.
  • Core strengths:
  • Building and mentoring world-class technical pre-sales and customer engineering organizations
  • Driving customer value through solution design, proof-of-concepts, and executive alignment
  • Scaling GTM impact across DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, FinOps, and API security
  • Hands-on expertise with Traceable API Security to help enterprises discover, monitor, and protect APIs across complex, cloud-native environments
  • Collaborating with product, sales, and customer success teams to shape roadmaps around real customer needs
  • I am passionate about helping engineering leaders modernize their software delivery pipelines, secure their APIs and applications with Traceable, reduce complexity, and empower their developers to move faster, safer, and smarter.
Python (Programming Language)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)API SecurityKubernetesCross-functional Team Leadership

Traceable by harness

Head of Customer Engineering, APAC & EMEA

Jul 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Sep 2021Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Appdynamics

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2016Jul 2017 · 11 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr

Informatica

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2015Jun 2015 · 3 mos

Senior Software Engineer

May 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

Software Engineer

Aug 2010Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Software Engineer (Intern)

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos

Honeywell technology solutions, inc.

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2010May 2010 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as an intern at “Honeywell Technology Solutions Laboratory”, Bangalore, on the project “Test Environment as a Service”, for providing a virtual test environment across Honeywell, using C# APIs for VMware ESX servers.

Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

M.S — Software Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2010

Guntur Vikas Junor College

XI and XII — Visakhapatnam

Jan 2003Jan 2005

Vidyodaya

Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 2003

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