Kirutthika Raja

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in engineering leadership.
Expertise in building scalable distributed systems.
Strong advocate for diversity and team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing expert with a focus on scalable distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDistributed SystemsCloud Computing

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipScalable ArchitectureWorkload identityPKIOpenSource SPIFFE SPIREHybrid cloud infrastructureEncryption-in-transitSecure service meshDiversity initiativesPlatform integrationsService meshAuthenticationTeam developmentScalable systems architectureSOA

About

Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of delivering high scale, performant solutions for business critical distributed systems. I am passionate about building high performing teams and delivering large-scale projects from inception to general availability fostering cross-functional collaboration, efficiency and operational excellence. Specialties: Engineering Management, Team development, Distributed computing systems, Scalable systems architecture, Cloud computing, SOA, Software Engineering, Full stack, AWS, GCP, OCI, NoSQL, CloudNative, Collaborative software development, Project Planning, Jira, Security, Privacy, Mentoring, Coaching

Experience

17 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Snowflake

Engineering Manager

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsScalable ArchitectureCloud Computing

Uber

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Leader for Workload identity and PKI teams at Uber. Created vision, northstar and 3-year roadmap for the teams.
Led the team to build the workload identity framework based on OpenSource SPIFFE SPIRE for Uber's hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Enabled ubiquitous workload identity for all workloads at Uber (in the scale of millions)
Bootstrapped a completely new team responsible for PKI from the ground up to service general availability and critical platform integrations (across compute, networking, storage, data).
Launched multiple reliable, high-scale Tier-0 platform services supporting security fundamental infrastructure for workload identity, authentication, PKI CA and Lifecycle management requirements for different types of workloads at Uber.
Launched the encryption-in-transit secure service mesh platform authentication at Uber supporting several million workloads (5000+ microservices, storage, batch, kafka, streaming workloads)
As part of Tech Women@Uber, co-led internal Stronger Together conference at Uber for promoting and celebrating greater diversity and fostering a stronger community together
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Workload identityPKIOpenSource SPIFFE SPIREHybrid cloud infrastructureEncryption-in-transitSecure service mesh+3

Sr Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Jan 2020 · 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Worked on high throughput, tier-0 secure Workload Identity Platform

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Designed performance optimization and hardware reduction on a high throughput critical service serving million requests per second.
Built the next-gen packing fulfillment experience for Amazon Fulfillment Technologies
Designed core data models for the next generation fulfillment data modeling initiatives to cater for new businesses and fulfillment growth.

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2010 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Designed and built workflows and services that help prevent customer abuse on Amazon's ordering platform.
Architected significant user experience and service components for Amazon Home Services and managed tier-1 multi-tenant web framework stack for the business.
Designed and managed digital publishing platform components for kindle ebooks, apps, periodicals.