Keerthikanth Sethuraman — VP of Engineering

> Engineering leader with 15+ years in software development and 10+ years in engineering management, driving high-impact delivery and scaling teams across global organizations. Proven success leading distributed teams, building high-volume, scalable platforms, and delivering complex digital transformation initiatives at Fortune 500 companies including Apple, Cisco, Southwest Airlines, and Kohl’s. > Strong track record of growing high-performing teams, mentoring engineering leaders, and aligning engineering execution with business goals. Passionate about coaching, technical excellence, and fostering inclusive team cultures. Hands-on when needed, with deep experience in system architecture, backend engineering, and agile delivery. > Active community contributor and continuous learner, with a strong interest in emerging tech and leadership development. Patents Grant: US20160343029A1: Content presentation based on access point location. Domain: Ecommerce, Retail, B2B, B2C, Banking and Finance, Fintech, Payments, SAAS, Subscription Services, FinOps Key Strengths: Executing, Strategic thinking, Relationship building, Influencing, Adaptability, Collaboration, Digital transformation, Digital initiative, Solution Architect, System Design and Architect, Cloud migration, Cloud Cost Optimization, Cloud Billing & Cost Forecasting Key Tech Skills: Core Java API, J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, JSP, Servlets, Spring boot, Restful web services, JSON, React JS, AJAX, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, XML, XSL, AJAX, JSON, Tomcat servers, Microservices, Docker, Google cloud platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux. Education: BE (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) at SASTRA University, India MMM (Master of Marketing Management) at Pondicherry University, India

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-Commerce expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and solution architecture.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 18 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Cloud Computing
Digital Transformation
Solution Architecture
E-commerce

Career Highlights

15+ years in software development and engineering management.
Proven success in leading digital transformation initiatives.
Strong track record of mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Work Experience

GEICO Tech

Senior Engineering Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

SVB

Senior Engineering Manager (3 yrs 6 mos)

Kohl's

Senior Engineering Manager - eCommerce (4 yrs 11 mos)

Fortinet

Principal Engineer - Solution Architect (1 yr 3 mos)

Apple

Senior Solutions Architect (4 yrs 4 mos)

Imetris

Software Consultant (2 yrs 2 mos)

Education

Master of Marketing Management at Pondicherry University

Bachelor of Engineering at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

Keerthikanth Sethuraman

VP of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in software development and engineering management.
Proven success in leading digital transformation initiatives.
Strong track record of mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-Commerce expert with a strong focus on digital transformation and solution architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDigital TransformationSolution ArchitectureE-commerce

Other Skills

APIsAgile MethodologiesApplication Programming Interfaces (API)ArchitectureArchitecturesAutomationAzureB2CBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Cloud ApplicationsCloud Billing & Cost ForecastingCloud Cost OptimizationCollaborationCommercial BankingCore Banking

About

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Geico tech

Senior Engineering Manager

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Projects : Benchmark and Regression Platform | FinOps Engineering Tools
Led the development of a robust performance benchmarking and regression detection platform, designed to assess and optimize performance across the entire technology stack. The platform proactively identifies regression issues, minimizes system friction, and ensures high availability and resilience. By enabling early detection and resolution of performance bottlenecks, it plays a mission-critical role in maintaining operational excellence and delivering a seamless user experience at scale. Also, as part of FinOps initiative, built engineering tools and dashboards that gave teams real-time visibility into cloud spend and optimization
> Headed and delivered multiple features for Benchmark and Regression platform
> Lead FinOps and cloud optimization initiatives across Microsoft Azure environments, driving measurable improvements in cost efficiency, governance, and resource utilization
> Collaborate with peer leaders to build product roadmaps and set priorities for service efficiency
> Boosted engineering productivity by implementing automation, and process improvements.
> Spend significant amount of time in peer reviews, design and architecture reviews.
> Oversaw team performance, budget planning, hiring, and resource allocation across multiple teams.
> Championed career growth through coaching, regular feedback, and performance reviews.
Fostered a high-trust engineering culture grounded in open communication, architectural rigor, and continuous improvement

Cloud Cost OptimizationCloud Billing & Cost ForecastingFinOpsPerformance EngineeringAutomationProcess Improvements+2

Svb

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2020 – Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-site

Project : Silicon Valle Bank (Online Banking)
Leading global agile engineering team and responsible for delivery of scalable microservice rest APIs for digital notification, information reporting platform, FDX- API for fintech aggregators like Plaid mint, and FI developer portal, Bill.com integration for bill payments.
Solution architected and delivered blue/green deployment for online banking application for zero downtime.
Partner with the world's leading technology and fintech companies to deliver best in class banking experience for our clients
Collaborate with Risk, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, KYC, and Finance as needed while supporting all compliance and risk initiatives.
Drive engineering excellence by participating in architectural reviews, and evangelizing software engineering best practices.
Partner with business leaders to provide expert technical advice and influence strategic decision making.
Manage team’s performance, including coaching for career growth, and create a healthy org ensuring open communication throughout.

MicroservicesAgile MethodologiesSolution ArchitectureAPIsCollaborationDigital Transformation

Kohl's

Senior Engineering Manager - eCommerce

Sep 2015 – Aug 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Milpitas, California, United States

Project: Kohls.com (B2C)
Leading ‘amazon returns’ projects from ground up to return amazon products at 1200 Kohls stores which helped to increase the customer footprint at Kohls stores.
Leading global engineering team and responsible for design, development and delivery of high traffic, high volume, distributed microservices deployed in Google Cloud Platform.
Led migration projects, which involves moving platform services, gift-registry services to Google Cloud and convert underlying technologies to spring boot microservices from monolithic blocks.
Design, development and solution architecting of gifts-registry and List microservices for all the 14+ Kohl’s channels.
Leading massive projects like personalization (with Big data integrations), Chatbot, Search/Browse and SEO optimization to improve conversion and drive revenue.
Work closely with engineering and product leadership to build product roadmap, and partnering with product teams to build revenue driving products and prioritize initiatives to deliver the greatest value to the business
Technical leadership, drive architectural decisions and designs based on business priorities and requirements.
Hire and motivate high-performance team. Coach, mentor, provide career directions and conduct performance appraisals to direct reports.

MicroservicesCloud ComputingSEO OptimizationTeam LeadershipE-CommerceDigital Transformation

Fortinet

Principal Engineer - Solution Architect

Jun 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Project: Forti Private Cloud/Analytics (Big data)
Provided direction and leading global software engineers, review deliverables for accuracy and completeness.
Architected and presented horizontally scalable distributed application with details to stack holders.
Prepared technical requirements, software design specifications, implementation planning, and architectural documentation.
Hiring new talents to build the team, providing technical mentorship to engineers in the team.
Actively involved in day-to-day projects to meet schedules, resolve problems by providing technical and non-technical solutions.
Heavy coding of core modules of the product using java/j2ee technologies.

Distributed SystemsSoftware DesignTechnical MentorshipSolution Architecture

Apple

Senior Solutions Architect

Jan 2010 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

Project: Quality Alerting System (Supply chain)
Architected and developed Quality Alerting System from the ground up.
Worked closely with business and product managers from the initial stage of the project, understand and gather requirements, prototyping and presenting the project, delivering the project.
Designed and developed complex business modules using various Java/J2EE technologies.
Designed and developed Restful web services consumed by iPad, iPhone apps, and web UI.
Led cross-functional technical development, review deliverables for accuracy and completeness.
Led global software engineers, evangelized the best design, coding practices and provided technical guidance to team members.

Java/J2EERESTful Web ServicesCross-Functional CollaborationSolution Architecture

Imetris

Software Consultant

Oct 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Project: www.Southwest.com
Southwest.com is a leading e-commerce portal, which sells flight tickets, car rental, and vacation package. It helps to search flights, buy tickets, check-in the passenger and bags and manages the flight information and status.