Rajneesh Kumar

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

19+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expertise in building scalable identity security solutions.
Proven track record in leading global engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and SaaS expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership and product development.

Contact

rajneesh@oleria.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud-native ArchitecturesSecurity EngineeringEngineering ManagementDistributed SystemsMicroservicesApi SecurityLeadershipSaasE-commerceJavaSpring Framework

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Apache PinotClearCaseCore JavaDirector levelDockerEJBEclipseEnterprise JavaBeans (EJB)Enterprise SoftwareFinTechGKEGWT

About

Engineering leader with 19+ years of experience building and scaling products across Identity Security, API Security, Observability, and E-commerce. Proven track record of setting up and scaling engineering centers, leading global teams, and delivering mission-critical distributed systems. Passionate about simplifying identity & access management, driving cloud-native adoption, and building high-performing engineering organizations. Currently heading Oleria’s India site, driving platform scale and integrations. With 11 years devoted to managerial roles, I've skillfully steered teams and nurtured client relationships on a global scale. My expertise extends to navigating the intricacies of startups as well as large enterprises. Skilled in Golang, Java/J2EE, Distributed Systems, NoSQL Databases, AWS, Security Engineering, Cloud-Native Architectures, and Product Development Lifecycle. Proven track record of building and scaling engineering centers, leading cross-functional global teams, and delivering mission-critical distributed platforms.

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Oleria security

Head of Engineering - India

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Established Oleria Security’s India center from scratch,
hiring engineers across Dev, QA, IT, and Product, delivering big tech roadmap
(integration platform, core platform , management plane).
Scaled core platform & management plane capabilities - Supporting massive volume of data
Scaled integration platform, expanding the number of integrations and enabling support for large-scale data volumes.
Simplified identity and access management for organizations, delivering secure, seamless user experiences using advanced technology to safeguard data, mitigate risks, and address evolving threats in a dynamic digital landscape.

AWSgolangNeo4jOpensearchEngineering ManagementLeadership+10

Traceable by harness

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Aug 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Led development of API Security platform with advanced context-aware threat detection, reducing false positives and improving application security for global customers..
Enhanced product performance by focusing on false positive detection and implementing API security-driven rate limiting.
Contributed to building a robust, scalable solution to protect APIs, ensuring reliability and security in dynamic environments.

Kafka StreamsNosqlLeadershipJavaEngineering ManagementGKE+7

Bicycle

Director Engineering/Principal Engineer

Jun 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Real-time software-to-business insights. Platform that seamlessly connects business data with live software telemetry

NosqlLeadershipGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)JavaEngineering ManagementGo (Programming Language)+2

Appdynamics

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2016 – Jun 2020 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Managed different teams DBMonitoring , Dynamics languages monitoring , Kubernetes monitoring
Helped company to move complete product ownership to India team
Increased adoption of DBMonitoring product by adding strategic features and integrating it with other
product lines.
Fixed critical customer problems in PHP , Nginx monitoring to reduce customer churn
Started K8s monitoring as new initiative to provide cloud native capabilities in the product.

Strategic InitiativesSoftware as a Service (SaaS)NosqlLeadershipProcess ImprovementJava+6