Venkat Kotra krishna

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

19 years of experience in technology leadership.
Expert in architecting large-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record with leading startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in E-commerce and SaaS with expertise in distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsFull Stack DevelopmentPayment SystemsSocial Networking Applications

Other Skills

AJAXAWSActionScriptAerospikeAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJsApacheBackboneBackbone.jsBackboneJsCDjangoE-commerceElasticSearch

About

Results-oriented technology leader with a 19-year track record of success in diverse technologies, industries, and domains. Expertise in architecting, building, and scaling large-scale distributed systems and applications. Proven ability to lead high-performing engineering teams, drive strategic planning, and foster a culture of innovation. Key contributions include developing mission-critical applications from the ground up for leading startups like Bigbasket, Flipkart, GoIbibo, and Xola. Successfully tackled complex challenges involving image recognition, vehicle routing optimization, analytics, ETL pipelines, data lakes, payment systems, last-mile delivery, supply chain, and warehouse operations. Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and best practices. Proficient in architecting, developing, and deploying containerized microservices applications on AWS cloud using Kubernetes. Strong advocate for DevOps principles, implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for efficient and reliable deployments. Adept in multiple programming languages (polyglot programmer) and committed to giving back to the community by providing technology consulting to non-profit organizations and developing applications with social and spiritual impact.

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bigbasket.com

Associate Director

Oct 2014 – Oct 2022 · 8 yrs · Bangalore

Responsible for building stable and scalable technology platform for containerised applications that supports Bigbasket's 5X growth.
Built customer focused applications solving a verity of problems involving Image recognition, Vehicle routing optimisations, Analytics, ETL application, data lakes, payments, last-mile delivery, supply-chain and warehouse operations.
AWS, ElasticSearch, Solr, Kafka , Redis, Aerospike, NodeJs, Python, Django, Java, Vertx, AngularJs, BackboneJs, RabbitMq

AWSElasticSearchSolrKafkaRedisAerospike+10

Xola

Founding Engineer

Oct 2011 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Banglore

Founding engineer Xola.com. Developed a unified booking and marketing system for tour guides and activity providers.
Full stack development in PHP/javascript using Symfony, Backbone frameworks. Followed TDD/CI and a number of other technologies, methodologies and practices.

PHPJavaScriptSymfonyBackboneFull Stack Development

Flipkart

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2009 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

Designed & Developed payment monitoring and failover system for Flipkart payment gateway, that
later evolved to become a separate company - PayZippy.
Flipkart e-gift vouchers
Payment/Checkout
Framework design and development. Books & Mobiles.
Reviews & Ratings
Joomla integration for static content of website
SEO, SEO metrics comparison and monitoring system
PHP, Javascript, Shell Programming, Joomla