Sai Rayanapati

CTO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India22 yrs 11 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Expertise in AI-driven product development.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in product and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct StrategyDevsecopsAi DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureCloud ServicesSoftware EngineeringPerformance ManagementSaas DevelopmentTelecommunications

Other Skills

AWSAcquisitionActiveMQAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon EC2AngularAntApplication Performance ManagementC/C++Capacity Measurement ToolsCassandraCloud-based CapabilitiesConversational AICustomer Service Automation

About

- Proven engineering leader with 20+ years’ experience in both startups and large organizations - I work by these values: Provide clarity and purpose, grow people and create big Impact. - Shipped multiple successful products with AI at the center. - Worked deeply in Distributed, Big Data, AI, and UI stacks across product domains, resulting in a well-rounded skillset

Experience

22 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • I lead Gamepass Subscription, Devices, and Widgets/Boards teams across Windows and account.microsoft.com (AMC), driving both foundational OKRs and retention/acquisition goals through rapid experimentation.
Gamepass SubscriptionDevicesWidgets/BoardsOKRsRetentionAcquisition+3

Prismo systems

Director of Engineering

Jul 2020Jul 2022 · 2 yrs · India

  • Relocated to India.
  • Built India organization from the ground up for Prismo Systems, a bay area security start up. Recruited for Dev, QA, security researcher and Tech Sales teams. Responsible for performance and success of these teams.
  • Prismo automates DevSecOps processes across the application SDLC securing custom code and supply chain software. Product areas I contributed:
  • Transaction model and processing, vulnerability detection algorithms
  • Attack surface determination for each category and replay with corresponding exploits.
  • ML based detection of entitlement management anomalies and excess privileges.
  • Software composition analysis, Node.js application agent development.
  • Tech stack: Golang, Python, machine learning, Elastic, Redis, etcd, gRPC, message queues, Java/.Net/Python/Node.js application agents/probes that run inside customer application.
DevSecOpsTransaction ModelVulnerability DetectionML DetectionSoftware Composition AnalysisGolang+8

Best buy

Software Architect

Dec 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Led development of a green field conversational AI platform in customer service automation with
  • platform clients being BestBuy’s customer service live chat channels (both web and mobile apps).
  • Launched initial intent classification services using DialogFlow and used IBM Watson discovery
  • for long tail (fallback) searches.
  • Oversaw implementation of product analytics and engagement metrics.
  • Helped define and execute continuous learning for the product where annotations made by
  • analysts are used for auto training the user intent prediction model.
  • Led home grown development of intent classification models for max customization.
  • Tech Stack: Scala, Angular, microservices, AWS, Python, machine learning, DialogFlow (GCP service),
  • Stanford NLP, Watson, Google Big Query
Conversational AICustomer Service AutomationIntent ClassificationDialogFlowIBM WatsonProduct Analytics+9

Comcast technology solutions

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2015Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • Worked in the Online Video Platform group that has comprehensive set of cloud-based capabilities to manage, publish, distribute, and monetize content.
  • Ran the Scale and Workflow teams that form a critical portion of the platform's backend services - one service get billions of views a month.
  • Drove the initiative to build proactive capacity measurement tools and their adoption by service teams to handle unexpected data center failovers and traffic increases. Ensured services are adequately monitored.
  • Played a hands on role in stabilizing our elastic search cluster deployments in production and lowered indexing times.
  • Tracked tech road map to reduce the scaling costs of our read infrastructure.
  • Tech stack: Java, micros services, large MySql clusters, Elastic search, Splunk, Grafana
Online Video PlatformCloud-based CapabilitiesCapacity Measurement ToolsElastic SearchJavaMicroservices+5

Ca technologies

Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2008Oct 2015 · 7 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked on products in the Application Performance management space that capture transaction performance data from applications, networks, and infrastructure, and provide an integrated end-user experience to help with root cause detection and problem resolution
  • Products that I worked on are Wily Introscope Server, Customer Experience Manager (CEM) and APM SaaS
  • Key projects:
  • Led the development of intelligent baseline analytics in the Introscope product that predicts anomalies based on uncontrolled variance in metrics.
  • Worked on the CA APM Next Gen Architecture that is multi-tenanted and designed to overcome scaling limitations of the old architecture. Tech stack is Cassandra, ZooKeeper, Active MQ broker networks, Spring, Amazon EC2.
  • CEM monitors transactions at a network level from a business perspective to determine what the end user is really experiencing. Led the design and implementation of several server-side features and performance improvements for processing and aggregating the network monitor data.
  • Tech Stack: Cassandra, ZooKeeper, ActiveMQ, Spring, REST, OSGI, Amazon EC2, Oracle, Postgres
Application Performance ManagementTransaction Performance DataIntelligent Baseline AnalyticsCassandraZooKeeperActiveMQ+6

Amdocs

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2004Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • A start up (OpenMarket Inc) that is acquired by Amdocs
  • Developed financial and messaging services in a SaaS model for the Mobile Commerce aggregator.
  • TechStack: Java, Linux, Tomcat, Maven, Ant, Subversion, MySql, Oracle , Hibernate, Struts, Load Balancer, JMX, Oracle, AXIS/SOAP
Financial ServicesMessaging ServicesSaaS ModelJavaLinuxTomcat+5

Nortel networks

Software Engineer

Jan 2001Oct 2004 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Richardson, Texas, United States · On-site

  • Developed VOIP telephony solutions for transfer, conference, video, presence subscription features on SIP application server (UserAgentServer) and Web Client.
  • TechStack: Java, JNI, C/C++, SIP/SDP, Nortel’s Call Processing Framework, Servlets, Tomcat, Java script, Oracle, SWING, SOAP
VOIP Telephony SolutionsSIP Application ServerJavaC/C++OracleSoftware Engineering+1

Education

University of North Texas

MS — Computer Science

Nagpur University

B.Tech — Computer Technology

NSM Public school

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