Santosh Valluri

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building AI/ML and big data products.
Strong leadership in engineering team development.
Proven track record of launching zero to one products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI/ML and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentData AnalyticsAi/mlDebuggingMemory ManagementFile Systems

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipBig DataSaaSBig Data AnalyticsApache KafkaHadoopDistributed SystemsSoftware DesignAlgorithmsC++CMultithreadingLinux KernelRTOSLinux

About

● Expertise in building software products in the areas of AI/ML, big data analytics infrastructure and distributed systems. Delivered multiple high throughput - low latency distributed systems. ● Strong leadership skills in building high performing teams setting up engineering culture, technical direction, mentoring and people growth. Expertise in leading technical teams through design and architectural decisions and execution. ● Strong entrepreneurial sense, having built multiple zero to one products from conceptualization to launch for both startups as well as large organizations. ● Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with ability to quickly grasp complex systems and identify areas of improvement and product impact building new initiatives and projects.

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Google

Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

Google Search: Search Intelligence : Growth Systems
Building a zero to one product for Google Search leading "Listens", a Gen AI Podcasts product. Bootstrapped the engineering team.
Enterprise Platform Engineering:
Manage a team of 40 consisting of EMs, SWEs, ML Engineers and Data Engineers. Bootstrapped teams, building the charter on greenfield projects.
Led Enterprise Search @ Google (MOMA) backend platform building a foundational Knowledge Platform to power role based agents across Google. Bootstrapped the team in India scaling to 10 SWEs from scratch.
Led 4 engineering teams working in the areas of Data Analytics Infrastructure, Analytics Surfaces and AI/ML in NLP. Work extensively involves deriving unstructured data insights at scale harnessing the power of LLMs.

Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Uber

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Cohesity

Staff Software Engineer / TLM

Jun 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Product Development

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Dec 2012 – May 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering Leadership

Parallocity inc

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2010 – Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Zeus Virtual Machine:
Parallocity makes a very interesting one of its kind runtime debugger which attaches with a running application and automatically finds useful defects (Memory errors, leaks and concurrency errors) with the program.
My work involves design and development of Infrastructure components for memory checker, syscall trapping and analysis , run-time code coverage analytics features.
Challenges involve execution time and memory bloat optimization to restrict overhead of instrumentation, Developing support for various architectures (x86 , MIPS, PPC, ARM) running linux, FreeBSD , Android etc.

Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team Leadership

Philips electronics india pvt ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2006 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs

DVD-HDD Recorder (Video and Multimedia Systems):
Software development across the stack from Applications , middleware, streaming and infrastructure. Areas of specialization included File Systems (FAT, UDF), NOR Flash Drivers, Memory management
I-pod docking for DVD-V4 (In-Car Entertainment):
End to End feature development from Hardware interfacing ,device driver to application layer with Extended interface protocol implementation enabling the user to experience i-pod native content through the DVD V4 controls. Areas of specialization include NTFS filesystem driver, USB driver, RS232, UART 16550 interfacing, Debugging using logic analyzers/Sniffers.
Diagnostic XRAY(Mamography, DXR):
Developed FSC’s (Field Sevice Components) for Diagnostic XRAY products interfacing system components using FSF framework to monitor system parameters locally or remotely.

Product Development