Sushruth Reddy Gade

Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States14 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led the development of AI-powered security products.
  • Architected scalable SaaS solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
  • Managed high-performing global engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Engineering expert with a strong focus on AI security.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai SecurityKubernetesEnterprise Identity ManagementAccess GovernanceFull Stack DevelopmentPayroll SolutionsSaas DevelopmentRisk ManagementCloud Engineering

Other Skills

Node.jsTechnical LeadershipJavafigmaSoftware DesignMySQLEnterprise ArchitectureCommunicationWeb ProductsPostgreSQLMCPAI AgentsAnthropicOpen AIHuggingFace

About

I’m a technology leader with experience in architecting and delivering scalable, secure, AI-powered SaaS products across startups and Fortune 500s. My work spans end-to-end solution design, enterprise identity governance, and cutting-edge AI runtime defense platforms—merging deep technical expertise with cross-functional team leadership. Key strengths: • Leading from 0 → 1: turning ideas into market-ready AI/security products • Architecting scalable SaaS solutions with cloud-native stacks • Building and managing high-performing global teams

Experience

Operant ai

2 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2024Oct 2025 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • At Operant AI, I lead the AI Security and Kubernetes product portfolio. I architected and brought to market a 3D Runtime Defense Suite that defends cloud and GenAI applications from OWASP Top 10+ attacks using Helm-based one-step deployment.
Node.jsTechnical LeadershipAI SecurityKubernetes

Intuit

2 roles

Technical Leader

Promoted

Sep 2021Sep 2024 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

  • As a technical lead for the EIM, Access governance teams, I managed the Enterprise Identity needs for Intuit, Mailchimp, Credit Karma and Mint. Helped integrate over 200 applications to in house solution using pub sub model to EIM systems powered by PingID, ForgeRock, SailPoint/ Seczetta, Beyond Identity, etc.
  • As the first UI developer on the Enterprise security org for Intuit, productized the enterprise security needs by building Intuit polyglot UI framework using node for the one Intuit framework to enable building serverless apps in any framework and integrate with shell/app react plugins of Intuit’s AppFabric React framework.
  • Helped grow the UI, EIM and Access governance teams, managed onshore, offshore resources, incident management for the Enterprise security teams.
  • Designed and developed dashboards, reports, UI flows using NodeJS, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Jest,Spring Boot, Java, Redis Cache, AWS for giving self-serve capabilities for various stakeholders.
  • Designed, developed and lead Bot life cycle management for RPA bots and synthetic users to manage non-human identities and extended EIM systems to auto provision/ clone access for system accounts, etc.
  • Significant contributor to AuthZ and AuthN for one Intuit frameworks to manage offline tokens and user context for every application/ repository worked on Intuit ecosystem.
  • Worked with all the application teams at Intuit for integrations, building the user, entitlement data, attributes for identity life cycle events, built rule engines to process bulk access provisioning for events like onboarding/off-boarding users.
  • Collaborated with Architects, program managers, managers across Intuit and CK to provision cross systems access, enable help to achieve successful ISO, SOX reviews for over 80 in scope applications using Veza and EIM systems.
JavafigmaEnterprise Identity ManagementAccess Governance

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021Sep 2021 · 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

  • I worked as a Senior Engineer in QuickBooks Online Payroll core team helping 800k small businesses with their payroll needs. Led the monolith decomp feature – Employment Profile/ Details.
  • Contributed to full stack development - React, GraphQL, Java (JSF Monolith). Maintained >85% test coverage using Jest, Testing Library, Cypress, JUnit on all the files to provide users with 99.99% uptime.
  • Actively participated in talent acquisition and mentored SDEs/interns.
JavaSoftware DesignFull Stack DevelopmentPayroll Solutions

Oncept consulting group

Founding Engineer/ Engineering Manger

Jul 2015Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, CA · On-site

  • Oncept is management consulting firm founded by Stanford Alumni. As a founding engineer, I helped productize multi-tenant Risk Management and Telecom Expense Management SaaS. Designed , Developed SaaS platform using AngularJS, Spring MVC, MySQL, AWS, ES6, JavaScript, Java, NodeJS, HTML, CSS.
  • Helped on board four new clients to the SaaS platform increasing the revenue by 9 million USD yearly. Helped clients save 34-38% of the telecom spending.
  • Managed the projects release cycles from Initiation to Closing using Agile methodology. Managed stakeholder expectations/engagement and streamlined the business revenue model from service to product-oriented model. Configured/ Managed Atlassian - JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, MS Teams, CDCI process using Jenkins, ANT, Maven for enhancing and automating tasks to enhance developer’s productivity.
  • Helped hire the team members, mentored engineers, and paired programmed to solve challenging issues.
JavaMySQLSaaS DevelopmentRisk Management

Stealth startup

Senior Software Engineer

May 2012Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos · United States · On-site

  • Worked in stealth startups as a Full-stack and cloud engineer with experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms, modernizing enterprise systems, and delivering scalable, high-performance applications. Strong background across backend development, cloud architecture, and DevOps, with hands-on leadership in technical evaluations and cross-team collaboration.
  • Highlights
  • Built and optimized SaaS platforms using Java, Spring, Play, Backbone.js, AngularJS, Docker, Cassandra, and MySQL—improving system performance by 40% and enabling video indexing and recommendation features.
  • Led a major Build vs Buy cloud architecture initiative across global business units; designed hybrid deployment models and integrated with ERP/CRM and Order Management systems.
  • Delivered POCs across SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, deployed using AWS and OpenStack, and developed automation frameworks for cloud provisioning.
  • Modernized legacy applications, migrating Flex/SOAP systems to modern web stacks.
  • Built CI/CD workflows with Maven/Ant, configured Apache/Tomcat with SSL and mod_jk, and managed deployments across multi-environment pipelines.
  • Served as Scrum Master, coordinating releases and daily Agile routines.
JavaEnterprise ArchitectureCloud EngineeringSaaS Development

University of north texas

Graduate Assistant

Aug 2011May 2012 · 9 mos · Denton , Texas

  • Worked as a graduate Assistant
CommunicationWeb Products

Education

University of North Texas

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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