avinash kolluru

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cross-functional teams in high-impact projects.
Expertise in cloud-native and cybersecurity solutions.
Innovative leader in Generative AI applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cybersecurity expert with a strong focus on cloud-native architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical DesignSoftware DevelopmentPlatform Development

Other Skills

Project PlanningCross-functional Team LeadershipMCPAutoGen frameworkWAAPBot/Fraud DetectionTeam BuildingJavaGRPCKafka/Kafka StreamsApache PinotMongoDBKubernetesDirector levelAgile Methodologies

About

Experienced in building and leading high-impact engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments. Served as part of the early founding teams at Traceable (now a part of Harness) and AppDynamics India, driving core product development and scaling engineering from the ground up. Proven expertise in architecting and engineering large-scale, distributed data platforms and high-throughput micro-services. Deep experience in building resilient, cloud-native systems within the modern DevOps and Kubernetes ecosystem. Strong domain knowledge in cybersecurity, with a focus on WAAP (Web Application and API Protection), including API threat detection, traffic analysis, and runtime enforcement at scale. Passionate about exploring the evolving landscape of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agentic AI—focusing on driving operational efficiency and unlocking innovative product integrations. Specialties: Google Cloud Platform, Cloud native technologies, Distributed/micro services, Java, GraphQL, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Spark, Kubernetes, J2EE, RxJava, Android Application Development, Python, Spark, MCP(Model Context Protocol), Databases/Stores(Apache Pinot, Mongodb, Oracle(SQL/PL-SQL), MySql, Couchbase, ElasticSearch)

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Harness

Director of Engineering

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Driving the expansion of product capabilities into the emerging Security for AI domain, with a focus on securing LLM-powered applications
Directly leading a small cross-functional team to build a global natural language assistant/chatbot using MCP and AutoGen framework that can query across all Traceable data sources—Inventory, Testing, and Protection—and return insights, preserving conversational context and linking to deeper investigations
Led a high-performing cross-geographical/functional engineering team to enhance the API Security product, expanding it into a comprehensive WAAP(Web Application & API Protection) offering that includes Bot/Fraud Detection & Prevention that achieved recognition as a leader
in the cloud WAAP space by SecureIQ (an independent, third-party cybersecurity solution validation and advisory provider), surpassing decade old competitors
Part of multiple company wide initiatives like setting up incident mgmt/on-call processes, new hire onboarding, campus recruitment, conducting and judging hackathons

Project PlanningCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering ManagementTechnical Design

Traceable by harness

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Overseeing the cross-geographical teams responsible for building different features in Traceable related to Runtime Protection(WAAP - Web Application & API Protection), Integrations(SIEM, SOAR, WAFs) and Bot/Fraud Detection & Prevention
Actively involved in code reviews, high level design reviews, rigorous prioritization, effort estimation, code reviews, project tracking.
Working closely with the product management, design and other cross functional teams to build the product aligning with the company strategy.
Hiring and mentoring young and senior engineers

Project PlanningCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentTechnical DesignTeam BuildingEngineering Management

Founding Engineer

Jul 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Worked on building some of the core cloud native services and high scale data pipelines with Java, GRPC, Avro, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Apache Pinot, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Apache Iceberg in the TraceableAI platform that help in the enrichment and persistence of raw data which forms the core of multiple product modules at Traceable
Spearheaded the team responsible for building various features related to Runtime Detection & Protection

Software DevelopmentTechnical DesignPlatform Development

Appdynamics

2 roles

Technical Manager

Nov 2018 – Jun 2019 · 7 mos

Design and implement a dynamic/flexible metadata model platform which allows for different product services to define and query custom entities
Lead a team that owns specific key areas for the above

Project PlanningSoftware DevelopmentTechnical Design

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Experience with working with memory intensive applications with over 100GB of heap
Built a framework for deploying micro services with auto scale using open source technologies like mesos, marathon, consul. Automated the entire deployment process using chef
Implemented a hackathon winning idea in the product which enabled users to easily navigate through the product by simple search

Software DevelopmentTechnical Design

Aruba networks

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Nov 2014 – Feb 2015 · 3 mos

- Remodel the existing data from a traditional relational DB(Postgres) to a time series DB (KairosDB with Cassandra as backend)

Software DevelopmentTechnical Design

Member of Technical Staff - 4

Jul 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

Design/Development of core components for the horizontally scalable Aruba cloud MDM solution using Python Web Frameworks
Rules engine in python for evaluating policies on a device and taking actions
Scalable worker application (using Celery) with Rabbitmq message queues as backend
Postgres DB master/slave setup using streaming replication, Redis Store clustering using sentinel
Scripts using Fabric(Python framework) for deploying application on the cloud with easy support for adding/deleting nodes from the cluster on demand
Key developer of the 'Workspace' Android Mobile Application Management App for Aruba

Software Development

Maas360, by fiberlink

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Led the development of MaaS360 MDM Android application
Feautures: Standard MDM, Samsung MDM, App/Doc Distribution, Application Compliance, Secure container for Email/Calendar/Contacts, TEM (Telecom Expense Management)
Responsible for critical production support of the MaaS360 MDM product
Involved in the development of various MaaS360 Cloud applications related to Payload/Message processing

Software Development

Software Engineer

Jul 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Design and development of the MaaS360 Trial Customer Registration application
Involved in the developed of the ETL(Extract Transform Load) process for showing reports of the data sent by the MaaS360 Visibility Agent (Desktop application)
Created reports using the Oracle BI tool that are integrated with the MaaS360 customer portal

Software Development