Venkat Kotla

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs 5 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

25+ years in tech engineering leadership.
Expert in operationalizing teams and processes.
Achieved 99.9% SLAs with automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cyber Security and SaaS expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber SecurityData ScienceAi/mlCommerceEngineering ManagementBusiness IntelligenceSaasMachine LearningProduct EngineeringCloud ServicesInfrastructure ManagementNetworkingInfrastructure

Other Skills

QAITOperationsAIOpsAutomationBillingMarketplaceEcosystem PlatformsIntegrationIoTLoad BalancingVPNDistributed NetworkingSoftware Defined NetworkingEngineering

About

Tech engineering executive with 25+ years of experience building quality products and productive teams. Best at operationalizing teams, processes, and systems with enterprise-grade reliability. More details at http://venkat.kotla.net • Cyber Security (2011+): SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, Threat Intelligence, Firewalls, DDoS, anomaly detection. • Commerce (2022-2023): SaaS marketplace, developer ecosystem, distribution, billing platforms. • Data Analytics (2021+): Multi-cloud SaaS business intelligence, embedded data analytics. • Machine Learning (2017+): AI/ML model development & integration on smart devices. • Cloud Services (2011+): Cloud products VPC, VPN, load-balancing, routing, rate-limiting. • Data center infrastructure (2009-2011): SD-WAN design, development, and deployment. • Distributed Algorithms (1998-2008): Internet protocols.

Experience

28 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Securonix

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Bring clarity to technical vision and drive the tradeoffs in its execution. Responsible for engineering, data science, QA, IT, infrastructure, and operations at Securonix, a leader in SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, and Threat Intel products; uses a unified SaaS platform at the intersection of Cyber Security, Big Data, and Machine Learning.
Securonix is a unicorn company backed by Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s largest private equity firms with over $100B in assets under management. Securonix protects more than 30% of Fortune 500 enterprises and over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including some of the largest global enterprises and MSSPs, from sophisticated cyber threats. As part of the Office of the CEO, I collaborate closely with the Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team to help operate and scale a $100M+ ARR global cybersecurity business with global operations and strong investor backing.
Major transformations and metrics: 100% GenAI adoption internally. 30% developer productivity improvement. 90% reducation on MTTR using AIOps. 99.9% SLAs achieved using automations. Above 4.0 Glassdoor reviews. Hired and retained the best talent. Delivered five agents to production with hundreds of customer adoptions. AI-DLC spec-driven development in progress.
Tech modernizations: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/securonix-case-study/ and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/behind-securonixs-unified-siem-spark-architecture-on-amazon-eks-99-99-availability-across-10000-concurrent-jobs/
Innovations: https://www.securonix.com/products/sam-the-ai-soc-analyst/ and https://www.securonix.com/products/securonix-snowflake/

Cyber SecurityData ScienceQAITInfrastructureOperations+2

Atlassian

VP of Engineering

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

Responsible for the Economy business unit, which includes Commerce, Billing, Marketplace, and Ecosystem Platforms; a 750+ people engineering team in four geo-locations with a $500M ARR.

CommerceBillingMarketplaceEcosystem PlatformsEngineering Management

Google

4 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for integrating Looker, a leader in Business Intelligence SaaS with a $250M ARR, into Google after the $2.6B acquisition; led 250+ people in engineering, program management, and operations in three geo-locations.

Business IntelligenceSaaSIntegration

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs

Responsible for Google Assistant ("Hey, Google!"), now Gemini, product engineering, and an on-device ML platform with speech, language, and vision integration on various IoT devices: Smart Displays, Speakers, TVs, Autos, Wearables, Robots, Telephony, etc.

Product EngineeringMachine LearningIoT

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs

Led tier-1 Google Cloud services: VPC, Load Balancing, VPN, NAT, Peering, Multi-NIC, Endpoint groups, IP aliasing, etc. Led mission critical internal services: GSLB, DoSServer, QuotaServer etc.

Cloud ServicesLoad BalancingVPNInfrastructure Management