Venu Karna

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in building high-performance systems.
  • Expert in architecting scalable software solutions.
  • Strong leadership in nurturing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Leader in E-commerce and HealthTech with expertise in scalable software solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitectureScalabilityCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentBig Data AnalyticsSupply Chain Management

Other Skills

AJAXAWSAWS LambdaAmazon EC2Amazon Web Services (AWS)CommunicationData StructuresEC2ElasticSearchEngineering LeadershipEngineering ManagementExt JSFacebook APIGenerative AIGrafana

About

Seasoned Engineering Leader with experience in architecting and delivering scalable, reliable software solutions across diverse domains, including E-commerce, HealthTech, Social Media Compliance, Genomics, and Supply Chain Management. Proficient in software design and system architecture, with a proven track record of building high-performance systems for both startups and large-scale enterprises.​ Demonstrated success in establishing and nurturing high-performing engineering teams from the ground up, leveraging strategic hiring, effective people management, and a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. Committed to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement to drive business growth and technological advancement.​ Passionate about mentoring emerging talent, aligning engineering objectives with business goals, and delivering impactful solutions that meet user needs.

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Flipkart

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Building highly scalable Flipkart promise and logistic platforms.
ScalabilitySoftware ArchitectureCloud Computing

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Engineering Manager

Oct 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Practo

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2016Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Handling multiple engineering teams in Practo across B2B and B2C segments.
  • Involved in hiring, grooming, performance management & career development of engineers. Actively involved in product roadmap contribution and planning.
  • Built a highly scalable and serverless integration system using AWS Lambda and nodejs which can make millions of external API calls in seconds.
  • Building robust, scaleable and performance efficient services.
  • Responsible for improving the performance of services by 300% and at the same time reduce the infrastructure cost by 55%.
  • Web Application development using Java and ROR.
  • Built an application monitoring and alerting framework using open source frameworks like StatsD, Graphite, Grafana & Nagios.
  • JRuby compliant application to deploy ruby on rails application on JVM, so that the application has flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform.
  • Design and architecture of payment system to integrate with payment gateways to process consumer payments..
  • Design, Architecture and development of appointment scheduling and booking systems.
  • Integration with HMS systems to simplify complex hospitals workflows and provide seamless experience to the consumer.
  • Hands on experience on amazon web services like CloudFront, Route 53, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, EC2, VPC, RDS, Classic Link etc.
  • Tech Stack:
  • Ruby on Rails, Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Redis, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Kinesis, Resque, GrayLog, MySQL, AWS (Lambda, Cloudfront, Route 53, Load Balancing, Classic Link etc.)
AWSJavaRuby on RailsPerformance TuningCloud ComputingSoftware Development

Architect

May 2015Mar 2016 · 10 mos

  • Web Application development using Java and ROR.
  • Built an application monitoring and alerting framework using open source frameworks like StatsD, Graphite, Grafana & Nagios.
  • JRuby compliant application to deploy ruby on rails application on JVM, so that the application has flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform.
  • Design and architecture of payment system to integrate with payment gateways to process consumer payments..
  • Design, Architecture and development of appointment scheduling and booking systems.
  • Integration with HMS systems to simplify complex hospitals workflows and provide seamless experience to the consumer.
  • Hands on experience on amazon web services like CloudFront, Route 53, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, EC2, VPC, RDS, Classic Link etc.
AWSJavaRuby on RailsSoftware Development

Actiance

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Jan 2012May 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Designed and developed cloud based web social media engagement platform that allows organizations to maximize the value of social media by empowering employees to share content on popular social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter in a compliant manner and also allows interacting with clients and prospects, and analyzing the impact of published content.
  • Also developed OAuth based REST APIs which the partners can leverage upon to access Actiance services in a safe and secure way.
  • Technologies:
  • Multi-tenant B2B web Application(SaaS) using Java, JSP/Servlets, Struts, Ajax, AWS, Facebook Graph APIs, LinkedIn APIs, Twitter APIs, JQuery and MySQL.
  • REST APIs using jersey-jackson plugins to expose Actiance services.
  • OAuth implementation for REST APIs using apache-oltu.
  • OpenSocial gadgets to integrate Actiance products with IBM Connections and other third party applications.
  • OSGI components to modularize the application, so that certain components can be run as separate services.
  • Minification of JavaScript’s, Ehcache based replicated caching etc. to optimize the product performance.
  • Centralized logging using Logstash, Redis, ElasticSearch and Kibana.
  • Localization of the web application using struts framework.
JavaJSP/ServletsAWSOAuthCloud ComputingSoftware Development

Interpretomics

Senior Member Technical Staff

Sep 2010Mar 2011 · 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Designed and developed cloud based software platform for aggregating and structuring genomics data and biomedical data. The application performs all the analysis before Data Scientists, BioStatisticians and Geneticists perform the complex tertiary and post-tertiary analysis for knowledge discovery.
  • Technologies:
  • R&D for cloud application. Hands on experience on Amazon EC2.
  • Big Data Analytics using Hadoop.
  • Web based portal using Struts, Ajax, Java, JSP/Servlets, AWS
  • Desktop application using JRI and open source biosciences tools
  • Integrated various open source biosciences tools to create the workflows for end to end genomic data analysis
HadoopAWSJavaBig Data Analytics

Sterling commerce an at&t company

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2005May 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Developed supply chain management related products, with main area of focus being Order Management. Developed both web as well as desktop applications.
  • Technologies:
  • Web Application using Ext-js, Struts, Ajax, Java, JSP/Servlets and Oracle
  • Desktop applications using Java, Swing and RCP
JavaOracleStrutsSupply Chain Management

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B.Tech — Electrical Engineering (Communications)

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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