Avinash Kolluru
Director Of Engineering at Harness
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAvinash Kolluru is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and founding core platform services for security-focused startups. Currently Director of Engineering at Harness/Traceable, he leads cross-geographical teams delivering runtime protection, SIEM/SOAR integrations, WAFs and fraud prevention, while remaining hands-on with design and code reviews. His background spans high-throughput data pipelines (Kafka, Avro, Pinot), large-memory JVM services, and Kubernetes-based microservices, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems and observability. He has repeatedly moved products from founding- engineer prototypes to production-grade features, and has a track record of hiring and mentoring engineers across seniority levels. Based in Hyderabad, he blends practical implementation skills (Python, Java, GRPC) with strategic product alignment across PM and design partners. An often-overlooked strength is his history of tackling both low-level performance challenges and high-level platform architecture, enabling teams to ship reliable security products at scale.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi, Telugu
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
avro9
crud9
core-platform9
parquet9
bootstrapping9
querying9
api8
entity8
configurations8
mongodb8
apache8
java8
abstraction7
streaming7
mongoose7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avinashkolluru/TutorialView
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 4 days
avinashkolluru/ColorPickerSeekBar
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 4 days
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