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Navaneeth Rao

Lead Software Engineer · 13+ years in cloud-native systems, ML infrastructure, and high-scale backend platforms.

Professional Summary

With over 13 years of experience in software engineering and management, including extensive expertise in Java, I have significantly enhanced process efficiency and customer satisfaction in agile and cloud computing environments. My DevOps experience has been instrumental in reducing project delivery times by 20%, while managing teams of up to 10 engineers over 6 years has fostered a collaborative and results-driven workspace. My 5+ years with cloud technologies have been pivotal in increasing user engagement by 25% and realizing $3 million in operational cost savings through strategic compliance and automation initiatives.

Experience

Lead Software Engineer

Walmart
Apr 2024 – Present

Migrated WCNP single-tenant clusters for secure, isolated model serving pipelines. Developed model routing with query normalization and tokenization. Optimized L1/L3 model execution using Perceive hub-spoke architecture. Designed regression test suites integrated into CI/CD.

Staff Software Engineer

PayPal
Feb 2023 – Apr 2024

Built Financial Risk Reporting platform processing 10M+ daily transactions. Led Databricks analytics platform (30% business efficiency gain), DynamoDB migration (30% cost reduction), Hibernate ORM integration (50% faster feature dev), and Redis caching (50% faster load times).

Senior Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company
Oct 2019 – Feb 2023

Designed Azure Right-to-Provision service automating subscription creation and budget management. Built RBAC and billing automation for 5,000+ employees. Launched Cloud Portal 2.0 and API onboarding platform. Developed hybrid cloud integration across Azure, GCP, and on-prem with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Software Engineer / Team Lead

IBM
Aug 2016 – Sep 2019

Integrated Icinga and PagerDuty achieving 99.99% uptime for 50+ data centers and 10,000 servers. Implemented 500 TB/day logging with Logstash, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. Subject matter expert for L1 escalations meeting 15-minute SLA.

Service Engineer Intern

Microsoft
May 2015 – Aug 2015

Overhauled Azure billing system with 40% performance boost. Implemented Cassandra data modeling achieving 50% faster data retrieval. Increased operational efficiency by 30% through capacity planning and monitoring.

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
Aug 2012 – Aug 2014

Managed Agile web security projects at ANZ Bank. Reduced unauthorized access by 50% with OTP authentication app. Achieved 90% decrease in XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Mentored 5 interns in Finacle e-Banking Framework.

Technical Skills

Education

MBA, Business Administration

The University of Illinois
2022 – 2024

MS, Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas
2014 – 2016

B.Eng, Information Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University
2008 – 2012

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