Professional record / 2012 to present
Navaneeth Rao
Staff Software Engineer building dependable cloud platforms, ML infrastructure, and high-scale backend systems.
- 13+
- years engineering
- $3M+
- cost savings
- 99.99%
- uptime delivered
- 3
- cloud platforms
Professional Summary
Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years building distributed platforms, ML serving systems, and developer infrastructure. Technical leadership spanning architecture governance, cross-team mentorship, and teams of up to 10 engineers.
Deep expertise in Java, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP, with an MS in Computer Science and an MBA. Outcomes include $3M+ in infrastructure cost savings and 99.99% uptime.
Experience
- Migrated Walmart Search clusters from single-tenant to secure multi-tenant Kubernetes model serving, improving availability to 99.9% and reducing inference latency by 25%.
- Designed multi-tier inference routing across multi-tenant, multi-locale environments supporting hundreds of millions of daily queries.
- Engineered query normalization and tokenization adopted across Search teams, and established architecture governance and distributed systems training programs.
- Engineered a Financial Risk Reporting platform on GCP processing 10M+ daily transactions for fraud detection and chargeback analytics.
- Orchestrated a Databricks analytics platform (30% efficiency gain), migrated core workflows from RDBMS to DynamoDB (30% cost reduction), and led ORM-based data-layer modernization that cut the feature-to-production lifecycle by 50%.
- Designed the Azure Right-to-Provision service automating subscription creation and budget management for 5,000+ engineers.
- Built a TypeScript RBAC system with automated cloud billing, led end-to-end delivery of the Cloud Portal 2.0 developer experience platform, and built a Java/Kafka observability system reducing mean time to detection for incidents.
- Led monitoring and alerting across 50+ data centers and 10,000 servers with Icinga, Grafana, and PagerDuty, maintaining 99.99% uptime for IBM Cloud.
- Built a 500 TB/day logging pipeline with Logstash, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Kibana informing $3M+ in cost reductions.
- Led a cross-functional team of 10 engineers and served as SME for L1 escalations on a 15-minute SLA.
- Overhauled the in-house Azure billing system in Java, delivering a 40% performance improvement and increased pipeline reliability.
- Implemented Cassandra data modeling and query optimization for a real-time analytics platform, achieving 50% faster data retrieval.
- Delivered web-security projects for ANZ Bank using Java and the Spring Framework.
- Developed an Android OTP authentication app that reduced unauthorized access by 50%.
- Trained 5 interns in the Finacle e-Banking Framework and RESTful API design; all five shipped features to production.