SRINIVAS VELPURI

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Engineering Leader with 15+ years experience in senior leadership positions, with overall 20+ years of software development expertise in both startup and large corporate environments. Key Qualifications:

Proven track record achieving company goals and objectives by leveraging strategic thinking, meticulous planning, and efficient execution, building and leading global cross-functional Software Engineering teams, fostering collaboration, and maximizing team performance. Extensive experience in cloud-native architectures, containerization, micro-services, SaaS and on-prem solutions, entire application stack, and creation of cutting-edge solutions in Multi Cloud environments. Deep knowledge building large scale AI/ML based applications and proficiency in latest industry trends and frameworks.

WORK HISTORY

11/2021 - 10/2023

Director of Software Engineering

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

Led cross-functional team of 40 plus Dev/QA Engineers, Technical Leaders, and Managers responsible for development of suite of cloud-native, micro-services architecture based SAAS/On-prem applications which provide AI/ML driven insights, event correlations, predictions, analytics, policy driven security and automate multi-cloud connectivity(Intra-cloud, Inter-cloud, On-premises data centers) in public cloud (AWS, AZURE, GCP), automating provisioning of cloud resources such as VPCs, VPC Peering, VPC attachments, Cloud Routers, Cisco CAT8KV, TGW, VGW, Azure VNETS, VNET Peering, security groups, security group rules, etc. Features including, Consistent Network, Security Policies orchestration, Application-Centric Security, Centralized Security Management, Secure Integration with Cloud L4-L7 Services

(Application/Network load balancers, firewalls).

Key achievements during my tenure include:

Agile Transformation: Pioneering transition of development process to agile application development techniques which improved feature release velocity and effectively reduced time-to-market by 50%. Architectural Migration: Leading migration of legacy platform to micro-services and container-based architecture which improved product scalability by 20X. Observability Enhancements: Taking lead in driving initiatives to enhance observability of products which helped proactive issue resolution and overall 50 % MTTR reduction and overall 30% increase in customer satisfaction.

AI/ML Initiatives: Led initiative of integration of AI/ML capabilities into products which helped in 50% noise reduction through event correlations and suppression of false positives. Dublin, CA 945**-***-*** 1040 ad4x1b@r.postjobfree.com 02/2016 - 10/2021

VP of Software Engineering

CloudFabrix - Pleasanton, CA

Led cross-functional team of over 50 plus Software/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Technical Leads, Architects and Managers, responsible for development of AIOPs AI/ML and Cybersecurity Platform/Products designed to optimize several aspects of IT operations, such as Performance Monitoring, real-time telemetry collection

(from devices, Applications), Anomaly Detection, Correlation, Predictive Analytics, Pattern Recognition, Time-series Forecasting, Root Cause Analysis, Cyber Security, Incident Management and Remediation. Key accomplishments during my tenure include:

CFX Micro Services/Event Driven Platform: Spearheading development of CFX micro-services/event- driven, container-based platform, designed to be deployed in private and public clouds as SaaS offering. Increased ML Capabilities: Led ML/AI initiatives, that resulted in a 40% improvement in anomaly detection accuracy and 70% noise reduction in false positives. Spearheaded integration of cybersecurity. Led development and implementing advanced threat detection and response capabilities and enhanced platform's ability to proactively identify threats, mitigate risks, and streamline cybersecurity operations for improved overall security posture. Reliability and Performance: Implemented rigorous quality assurance measures, resulting in a 99.9% platform uptime.

08/2011 - 02/2016

Director of Software Engineering

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

As Director of Engineering at Cisco, I played a pivotal role in driving success of Cisco UCS Director, a market- leading platform for private/public cloud infrastructure provisioning and monitoring. Leading a cross-functional team of over 70 Dev/QA Engineers, Technical Leads, and Managers, I oversaw development of Cisco UCS Director (Cisco UCSD) solution. This comprehensive suite enabled unified management of converged infrastructure solutions (compute, storage, networking, security, virtualization) based on Cisco, NetApp, EMC, and VMware technologies, supporting bare-metal and virtualized environments. Key accomplishments during my tenure include:

Product Development and Cisco Acquisition: Led successful development of highly customizable infrastructure orchestration product, CUIC, which achieved Cisco certification. This achievement was instrumental in acquisition of Cloupia Inc. by Cisco. Collaboration and Solution Design: Collaborated with cross-functional teams across several Cisco business units to advocate, support them in building their own custom applications using CUIC platform/framework. This framework led to development of Cisco SAAS based UCS Intersight solution. 04/2009 - 08/2011

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

04/2006 - 04/2009

Software Engineering Manager

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

08/1999 - 04/2006

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc. - San Jose, CA

SKILLS, KEYWORDS

Leadership and Management: Strategic

Planning, Team Building, Accountability,

Responsibility, Collaboration, Critical Thinking,

Training, Mentoring, Talent Management, Diversity

& Inclusion, Servant Leadership,

Project and Program Management: SDLC, Agile

Methodologies, Scrum Master, Jira, Rally, Asana,

Programming Languages and Tools: Python, C,

C++, Java, Linux, Go, APIs, SDKs, Microservices

Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Containers,

DevOps, CI/CD, Automation, Simulation, SaaS,

On-Prem, Jenkins, Git, ServiceNow, Bitbucket

Security, Identity and Access Management:

Cybersecurity, Zero Trust Architecture (Edge,

Device, Network, Cloud, Application and Data

Security), Threat Detection and Response,

Vulnerability Management, Security Incident

Investigation, Compliance Monitoring, Security

Analytics and Reporting, SSE, SASE, PEN, SAST,

DSAT, Active Directory, SAML, IAM, SSO, Okta,

Auth0, LDAP.

Cloud Platforms: Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud,

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud

Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure Cloud.

AI/ML and Data Analysis: AIOPs, Data Science,

Supervised & Unsupervised Learning, Feature

Engineering, Data Enrichment, MTTR Reduction,

Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Anomaly Detection,

Log Analytics, Time Series Analysis, Predictive

Analytics, Machine Learning Algorithms, Data

Visualization, Natural Language Processing

(NLP), Model Evaluation, Model Deployment,

Model Monitoring, Datasets, PyTorch, Pandas,

Numpy, Jupyter Notebook, ScikitLearn,

Tensorflow, AWS SageMaker.

Observability and Monitoring: Observability,

OpenTelemetry (OTel), Traces, Logs, Metrics,

Elastic Search, ELK Stack, Splunk, Grafana.

Cisco Networking: Device Monitoring, Network

Management, Configuration, Security, Routing,

Fault Management, Infrastructure Provisioning

(Virtualization, Compute, Storage, Network).

Data Storage and Processing: MySQL,

InfluxDB, GraphDB, GraphQL, Cassandra, Minio

Objectstore, Redis, Kafka, NATS, Apache Spark,

Airflow.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science

Andhra University - Visakhapatnam, India

Master of Science: Computer And Information Technology Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kharagpur, India

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