Kamesh Rao Yeduvakula — Software Engineer

SUMMARY • Technical Leadership: Senior technical leader experienced in building and operating internet-scale distributed systems, big data platforms, video streaming infrastructure and AI-ops architectures across industry-leading organizations. • Platform Engineering Expertise: Proven track record simplifying complex systems and delivering scalable infrastructure at Amazon, Google & Uber supporting platforms that process billions of requests daily. • Organizational Transformation: Scaled engineering teams 50x (5 to 250+ engineers) across Core, DevSecOps, Platform, QA, SRE & Data Science functions while establishing enterprise-grade architecture, operational excellence frameworks and AI-ops best practices that optimized cloud costs and LLM utilization company-wide. • Cross-Domain Expertise: Deep technical knowledge spanning e-commerce, cloud platforms, mobility, EdTech, advertising, security (ZTNA) & geospatial systems with rapid domain adaptation capabilities that enable immediate organizational value creation. • Operational Excellence: Demonstrated ability to reduce MTTD/MTTR, improve system reliability and drive engineering culture transformation through systematic process improvement and automation. • Engineering Mentorship: Hands-on, lead-by-example approach to developing senior engineers and technical leaders with proven track record of career progression and team capability building. SCALE & IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS 🚀 200B+ events/day and 4+TB/day of data processed via real time streaming systems ⚡ 1M+ concurrent websocket connections on real-time live class platforms 🎯 60+ billion requests/day, 30K+ QPS on low-latency high-throughput services for 5B+ USD Ad business 📈 400k+ weekly active learners (80x growth from 5k) via engaging score-improving learning experiences 👥 250+ engineers led across multiple functions and disciplines 🎓 20+ engineers mentored with proven career progression 💰 40% cloud cost optimization with strategic architecture optimization and replacing expensive 3P solutions ⚙️ Reduced MTTD and MTTR through operational initiatives, process improvements and RCAs TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages: Java, Golang, Rust, C++, C++11, C# Big Data: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Hadoop, BigQuery, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, Iceberg Databases: Spanner, Cassandra, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, HFile, RocksDB, MongoDB Streaming/Media: WebRTC, MediaSoup, HLS, ffmpeg, gstreamer, Nginx RTMP server Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Streaming & Batch Big Data, LLMs, Disaster Recovery Cloud: AWS, GCP, ADK, gRPC, Kubernetes, Docker

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled technical leader in EdTech and Cloud Computing with expertise in scalable systems.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 5 mos

Skills

Platform Architecture
Cloud Cost Optimization
Data Infrastructure
Engineering Excellence
Cloud Security Insights
Cost Optimized Maps Diagnostics Platform
Real-time Eta Platform
Ordered Lossless Messaging Platform
Bcp/dr Initiative
Product Launch
Security Enhancements
Real-time Bidding Platform
Payment Platform Management
Mobile Product Development
Mobile Application Development

Career Highlights

Led engineering teams scaling from 5 to 250+ engineers.
Processed over 200 billion events daily across platforms.
Achieved 40% cloud cost optimization through strategic architecture.

Work Experience

ALLEN Digital

Principal Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)

Google

Software Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)

Uber

Staff Software Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Flipkart

Software Architect (1 yr 5 mos)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer III (1 yr 3 mos)

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer (3 mos)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer III (1 yr 10 mos)

Software Development Engineer II (1 yr 8 mos)

OnMobile

Engineering Lead (9 mos)

LocationGuru Solutions

Associate Vice President (6 yrs 5 mos)

Education

BE at Nagpur University

High School at Modern School

Kamesh Rao Yeduvakula

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams scaling from 5 to 250+ engineers.
Processed over 200 billion events daily across platforms.
Achieved 40% cloud cost optimization through strategic architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled technical leader in EdTech and Cloud Computing with expertise in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform ArchitectureCloud Cost OptimizationData InfrastructureEngineering ExcellenceCloud Security InsightsCost Optimized Maps Diagnostics PlatformReal-time Eta PlatformOrdered Lossless Messaging PlatformBcp/dr InitiativeProduct LaunchSecurity EnhancementsReal-time Bidding PlatformPayment Platform ManagementMobile Product DevelopmentMobile Application Development

Other Skills

MicroservicesWebRTCKafkaClickhouseSparkCI/CDAWSDatabasesWebSocketData AnalyticsCloud SecurityPolicy EngineGCPDiagnostics PlatformApache Flink

About

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Allen digital

Principal Engineer

May 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Platform Architecture: Bootstrapped complete LMS platform from scratch with 55+ microservices and 5+ databases supporting 20K RPS across practice, learning, and academic operations. Architected comprehensive content delivery, learning management, assessment systems, AI-powered LLM doubt resolution, content hosting infrastructure and resource management with granular attribute-level authorization capabilities.
Live Class Systems: Built horizontally scalable signaling platform supporting 1M+ concurrent WebSocket and WebRTC connections from scratch, improving learner experience from 144p to 480p video quality on 3G networks (720p on 4G networks) through optimized streaming architecture.
Data Infrastructure: Designed data pipeline processing 1B+ events daily using Kafka, Clickhouse, and Spark, enabling 5+ major student-facing features. Built a comprehensive data warehouse using Kafka Connect and Debezium to support analytics, business intelligence, growth optimization and engineering use cases.
Real-time Customer Data Platform: Built Audience Manager to generate real-time insights on student behavioral data and recommend personalized next-step actions, improving student engagement rates for both subscribed and freemium learners through data-driven experience optimization.
Engineering and Operational Excellence: Architected enterprise-grade CI/CD infrastructure with integrated security scanning, automated quality gates and comprehensive monitoring that transformed development velocity while establishing a proactive incident management culture focused on prevention over reactive remediation.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Delivered significant AWS cost reduction (40%) through strategic architecture optimization and development of in-house platforms (clickstream, data warehouse, WebRTC) that replaced expensive third-party solutions.
AI Integration: Architected AI-Ops platform with LLM gateway, MCP server integration and agent development framework.

MicroservicesWebRTCKafkaClickhouseSparkCI/CD+3

Google

Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Cloud Security Insights: Built insights platform capturing 125B+ usage events (3TB/day) from 8+ systems for CISO dashboard.
AuthZaaS Policy Engine: Designed policy language spec and runtime for Authorization-as-a-Service.
License Enforcement: Built license enforcement system serving 22M+ QPS without latency impact across complex high throughput GCP platforms like IAM, VPC-SC, Chronicle and BCE.
Leadership: Led teams of 2-8 engineers, mentored 40+ engineers across global organization.

Cloud SecurityPolicy EngineGCPCloud Security Insights

Uber

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Cost Optimised Maps Diagnostics Platform: Architected diagnostics platform processing 70B events daily (4+TB data) for Uber's maps and places platform to store and enable retrieval of the same via HFiles and API layer accessing HFiles to reduce Pinot infra costs.
Real-time ETA Platform for Uber Maps: Built dual telemetry platforms using Apache Flink joining 200B+ event streams for ETA measurement accuracy improving the ETA prediction with faster reactive traffic model (reaction within 30 minutes versus 24 hours previously) reducing overall ETA error.

Diagnostics PlatformReal-time ETA PlatformApache FlinkCost Optimized Maps Diagnostics Platform

Flipkart

Software Architect

Mar 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Ordered Lossless Messaging Platform: Designed and delivered v2 distributed messaging system processing 100M+ events/day while fixing the architecture flaws in the previous version to deal with ordered delivery and failure handling.
Company-wide BCP/DR Initiative: Contributed to business continuity and disaster recovery architecture. Proposed and built change management tracking software and onboarded all services across the entire company.

Distributed Messaging SystemBCP/DR InitiativeOrdered Lossless Messaging Platform

Amazon

Software Development Engineer III

Nov 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Product Launch: Designed and secured mobile/server SDKs for Amazon Pay merchant platform. Scaled Amazon Pay from 0 to 1.75M+ monthly transactions, 470M+ transaction value.
Engineering Excellence: Enhanced operational stability while supporting a growing user base of over 1.1 million monthly active users.

Mobile/Server SDKsOperational StabilityProduct Launch

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Oct 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

As a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, I contributed to the Azure HDInsight team, focusing on enhancing security protocols for big data applications. My primary achievement was implementing a robust bridge between OAuth and Kerberos, significantly improving data security for cloud-based analytics.

Security ProtocolsBig Data ApplicationsSecurity Enhancements

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Promoted

Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

Real-time Bidding Platform: Built and operated distributed ad platform handling 60B+ bid requests daily across 1000+ machines. Integrated with global ad-exchanges like Google, Facebook, etc.
Ad Identity Platform: Single-handedly owned ad identity system enabling behavioral targeting for the 5B+ USD Ad Business of Amazon, improved targeting by 10%.
Lossless High Value Ad Targeting: Designed high-value user cache using Redis and RFM model, implemented cross-continent (EU, US, AP) replication via SNS/SQS.

Distributed Ad PlatformAd Identity SystemReal-time Bidding Platform

Software Development Engineer II

Nov 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Owned the Payment Platform for the Associates Payments team, focusing on referral fee computations for Publishers.
Designed a real-time earning computation platform utilizing Java, SQS/SNS, SWF, DynamoDB, and S3.
Resolved S3 eventual consistency issues, enhancing data accuracy in high-scale distributed environments.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams across various time zones to innovate and implement new features.

Payment PlatformReal-time Earning ComputationPayment Platform Management

Onmobile

Engineering Lead

Jan 2012 – Oct 2012 · 9 mos · Bangalore Area, India · On-site

As a Tech Lead, worked with multiple team members to build mobile SMS, USSD, WAP, Web based products and platforms integrating multiple payment mechanisms.
Implemented and deployed the mobile web storefront for the GreatBuyz application to search, list, select, purchase, pay for and manage deals and coupons.
Implemented the deal aggregation platform to ingest and create a Solr index for the daily deals data arriving from SnapDeal, MyDala and Groupon.

Mobile ProductsPayment MechanismsMobile Product Development

Locationguru solutions

Associate Vice President

Jul 2005 – Dec 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Greater Nagpur Area · On-site

I successfully drove the development of cutting-edge mobile applications and platforms that transformed user interaction in social networking. Worked across 3 different ventures with the same founders for 7 years, viz. Umundo(mBlazon), LocationGuru, Lambent Technologies.
Collaborated on the design and marketing of LBS products, enhancing feature usability and appeal.
Championed the creation of popular mobile games and apps, establishing a strong presence in emerging markets.
Mentored and expanded engineering teams, fostering a culture of growth and innovation.
Manageg 50+ member team as a Engineering Head.

Mobile ApplicationsSocial NetworkingMobile Application Development