Venkat Teki

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced system provisioning latency from minutes to seconds.
Improved release cycles from 7 days to 2 days.
Led large-scale migrations with 50+ engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsOperational ExcellenceApache KafkaKubernetesJava

Other Skills

Project ManagementCommunicationHiringPerformance ManagementLeadershipDistributed DevelopmentGo (Programming Language)MentoringAPMdockerjQueryAJAXEnterprise JavaBeans (EJB)SwingNMS

About

I am an engineering leader with deep experience building and scaling distributed, multi-tenant cloud platforms. At Confluent, I lead platform teams responsible for core infrastructure components powering Kafka-based systems at scale. My work spans architecture modernization, reliability engineering, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution. Over the years, I have: • Reduced system provisioning latency from minutes to seconds through architectural redesign • Improved release cycles from 7 days to 2 days by decoupling tightly coupled services • Led large-scale migrations mobilizing 50+ engineers across teams • Increased developer productivity through platform abstractions and internal tooling

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Leading a high performance team to build a solid platform for the ecosystem of 150+ fully managed connectors. Team's charter is to make the platform robust, secure and scalable so that connector provisioning and post provisioning experience is super smooth for the customers.
Reduced connector provisioning latency from ~10 minutes to ~30 seconds through architectural redesign.
Improved release cadence from 7 days to 2 days by modularizing tightly coupled components into independently deployable services.
Built foundational capabilities including RBAC enablement and post-provisioning lifecycle improvements.
Balanced high operational ownership with roadmap delivery while improving system reliability and execution predictability.

Project ManagementCloud ComputingOperational ExcellenceCommunicationHiringPerformance Management+3

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Led key platform capabilities for Kafka Connect in Confluent Cloud, including RBAC enablement and connector lifecycle enhancements.
Contributed to architectural decisions improving scalability and provisioning experience.

Go (Programming Language)Operational ExcellenceCommunicationDistributed SystemsApache KafkaDistributed Development

Appdynamics

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Led a team of 6 and built the kubernetes monitoring product from scratch. Also, built the infra-agent product which a unified monitoring product for any type of infrastructure.

JavaCommunicationMentoringHiringPerformance ManagementLeadership+4

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2015 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Founding member of their infra visibility group in India. Built various capabilities in their infra visiblity product and played a key role in its evolution from monitoring the stand alone machines all the way to dockerization, and kubernetes monitoring

JavaDistributed SystemsKubernetesdocker