Kiran Kumar Katreddi

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in architecting scalable distributed systems.
  • Led platform engineering for 150M+ users at Meesho.
  • Keynote speaker on AI infrastructure and cloud scalability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect with expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Platform EngineeringDistributed SystemsAi-infused Saas PlatformP&l ManagementStrategic LeadershipTechnical ArchitectureBig Data PlatformsVideo Streaming OptimizationReal-time Big DataAnalytics Product DevelopmentBig Data SolutionsAnalytics Reporting SolutionsMedia ProductsScalable Software SolutionsPublisher/subscriber Communications

Other Skills

Apache SparkArchitectureBig DataCC++CassandraCloud ComputingCode ReviewCommunicationComputer ScienceCyber-securityData WarehousingDatabase DesignDevOpsDigital Strategy

About

Technology is only as powerful as the systems behind it. I have spent my career architecting and scaling large-scale distributed systems across Ecommerce, Big Data SaaS, Video Streaming, Healthcare, and Electronic Warfare. From designing high-performance, cloud-native platforms that serve millions of daily users to optimizing infrastructure for cost, performance, and reliability, I focus on building scalable, resilient architectures that drive real impact. At Meesho, I lead Platform Engineering, ensuring our Bharat-scale systems operate seamlessly for 150M+ users with 99.99% uptime, while driving cost-efficient, high-availability architectures. My expertise spans distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud computing, and reliability engineering, ensuring seamless scalability and fault tolerance in an ever-evolving tech landscape. Engineering isn’t just about writing code—it’s about building architectures that last. I thrive on mentoring engineering leaders, solving deep technical challenges, and designing scalable platforms that adapt, evolve, and self-optimize—just like nature’s constant transformation. Beyond architecting and scaling platforms, I actively speak at conferences and share insights on LLMs, AI infrastructure, cloud scalability, and cost-efficient distributed systems. As a keynote speaker and thought leader, I break down machine learning, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale distributed computing into actionable takeaways for engineers and architects. I thrive on mentoring engineering leaders, solving deep technical challenges, and designing self-optimizing, scalable platforms—just like nature’s constant evolution. Through my newsletter, I provide in-depth analysis on AI-driven architectures, large-scale systems, and the future of intelligent platforms. If you're passionate about high-growth platforms, AI-powered systems, and next-gen distributed architectures, let’s connect.

Experience

21 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Meesho

Vice President Platform Engineering &AI services

Aug 2021Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • As VP of Platform Engineering at Meesho, I mentor talented engineering teams as we architect enterprise-grade systems at massive scale. Together, we're building scalable platform abstractions within our central platform that form the backbone of large-scale distributed computing.
  • We specialize in enterprise-grade AI services integration and design high-throughput experimentation and data platforms that handle massive data volumes while maintaining enterprise reliability standards. Our focus on self-serve infrastructure platforms at scale empowers engineering teams across the organization to innovate rapidly without compromising operational excellence.
  • Throughout everything we build, security remains our foundational pillar - ensuring every platform meets enterprise-grade standards from day one. My role combines deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems with strategic platform engineering leadership, guiding our teams to think beyond immediate solutions toward platform abstractions that scale with business growth.
Strategic LeadershipTechnology DevelopmentDigital StrategyDigital TransformationCyber-securityMicroservices+5

Decision resources group

2 roles

Global Technology Head

Jul 2018Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsible for building architecture for the "AI-infused SaaS platform" for DRG customers since October 2019. DRG is bought by Clarivate analytics in Jan 2020. Part of the tech Due diligence team during acquisition.
  • Till October 2019, played the role of global technology head, running P&L, people, process, technical architecture/vision were my responsibilities. The team is spread across North America and India. Building products/platforms for 12 different DRG business units.
Strategic LeadershipTechnology DevelopmentDigital StrategyNegotiationPresentationsCommunication+13

Chief Technology Officer - India

Jul 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsible for Technical architecture for DRG SaaS platforms, content platforms, and Bigdata platforms. Revamping legacy tech architecture and bringing multiple siloed platforms/products into one single platform for Pharma companies, Payers, Providers, Medtech companies to consume structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources/formats. I loved this role as the first time in my career I was dealing with a variety of data that completes 3 Vs of big data for me. I have seen Volume and Velocity in my previous roles.
Strategic LeadershipTechnology DevelopmentDigital StrategyNegotiationPresentationsCommunication+13

Mediamelon, inc.

Principal Architect

Jul 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developed the next-generation software platform for video streaming optimization and realtime big data platform for measuring audience QoE for video streaming using open source technologies(i.e. Kafka, Spark Streaming+Yarn, Cassandra, Redis, Play Framework,D3.js, Docker, Ansible). Responsible for technology vision, architecture, and delivery for all the MediaMelon platforms including building and mentoring one of the best teams I worked with.
Strategic LeadershipTechnology DevelopmentDigital StrategyNegotiationPresentationsCommunication+13

Akamai technologies

5 roles

Senior.Architect.Lead

Apr 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Responsible for analytics product development @Akamai.
  • Working closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
  • Oversee Architecture and design of technically robust, flexible and scalable BigData solutions for petabytes of data.
  • Wearing multiple hats from senior architect and developer on the most complex elements of the product to technical Manager.
  • Managing a team of engineers responsible for development of Media Reports and Analytics,Security Monitor, Perf Analytics, Network Monitor and other data analytics products.
Strategic LeadershipTechnology DevelopmentPresentationsCommunicationDigital TransformationCode Review+8

Architect.Lead.

Apr 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Responsible for designing end to end analytics/reporting/Billing solutions for new media products in Akamai. Leading development team responsible for these solutions. Architected Network Monitor for monitoring Akamai intelligent platform.
Technology DevelopmentCommunicationCode ReviewTeam LeadershipTech-SavvySales Presentations+4

Principal Lead System Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2011Apr 2012 · 6 mos

  • Responsible for building highly scalable software that runs on thousands of machines for managing publisher/subscriber communications channels and many to one reporting infrastructure. Responsible for building LogParsers which can crunch petabytes of logs per day and provide insights to customers about their content on akamai intelligent delivery platform. Managed the Dev and QA resources responsible for building these products.
Technology DevelopmentCommunicationCode ReviewTeam LeadershipTech-SavvyMicroservices+2

Principal System Software Engineer

Jul 2011Oct 2011 · 3 mos

  • Worked on QoS Monitor for media streaming, which gives you a simple snapshot of the number of people streaming media at that moment in time, and overlays key quality metrics. Evaluated lots of in memory , document data bases, CEPs for realtime analytics. Designed and developed realtime notification system within couple of months.
Technology DevelopmentCode ReviewTeam LeadershipTech-Savvy

Sr. Software Engineer

Dec 2007Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Developing anlytics products for large object downloads and media domains. Worked on large scale data processing systems based on map reduce paradigm and capable of crunching petabytes of data. Worked on Download Analytics which Improve adoption and completion rates with fast, reliable software downloads for customers. Worked on Media Analytics which give insight into the performance of live streaming and on-demand digital media offerings by Akamai.
Technology DevelopmentCode ReviewTeam LeadershipTech-Savvy

Yahoo!

Sr.S/w Engineer

Aug 2006Dec 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Developing innovative solutions that extract key insight from the Yahoo Data Platform. Worked mainly on solution providing business intelligence on Yahoo front page(Yahoo.com) that influences lot of decision making on other Yahoo! entities. Worked on custom ETL framework/applications which are used to crunch terabytes of web logs related to Y! properties. Worked on Data Stage(ETL) and Microstrategy(Reporting tool) for brief period of time.
Technology DevelopmentCode ReviewTech-Savvy

Tcs

Assistant Systems Engineer

Jun 2004Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Building Electronic Warfare software for one of the indian defence research labs. Worked on GIS products, done lots of system programming(xwindows,QT,C,C++). Responsible for GIS module, end to end solution integration. Built multithreaded applications using C++ and QT.
  • Worked for brief period of time on Kenan BP telecom billing product which is used by most of the major telecom players in the world.
Code ReviewTech-Savvy

Education

University of Hyderabad

M.Tech — Computer Science

Jun 2002Jun 2004

Sree Nidhi institute of science and technology

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

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