Lakshmi Kannan
Vice President Of Engineering at SentinelOne
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLakshmi Kannan is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling platforms across seed-stage startups and web-scale companies, now overseeing ~260 engineers as Vice President of Engineering at SentinelOne in San Francisco. She combines deep hands-on systems expertise—from network protocol simulators and NoSQL databases to high-volume ingestion and auto-remediation platforms—with a track record of driving multi-cloud, FedRAMP-capable SaaS platformization, SRE, and developer experience. She has repeatedly led post-acquisition integrations and fast-growth hiring across geographies, turning complex operational challenges into standardized, automated delivery pipelines. An active open-source contributor, she has improved core backend tooling and docs for projects like StackStorm and enhanced Python logging in structlog, reflecting her focus on reliability and developer ergonomics. Known for recruiting and retaining diverse teams, she brings both academic rigor (PhD-level research background) and pragmatic product-led engineering to security and observability domains.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
Tamil, English, Telugu
Github Skills (29)
storm10
api-rest10
restructuredtext10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
rs10
structured-logging10
api10
yaml10
rest-api10
logging10
documentation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2
Jun 2014 - Nov 2018
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1889 commits, 525 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lakshmi's commits indicate a focus on back-end development within the StackStorm framework. They implemented features related to action model changes, and contributed to API model changes for notifications in Actions and LiveActions, and rule enforcement. The user also added tests for the aforementioned features, highlighting a commitment to code quality. Furthermore, they modified the core logic of several elements of the core modules of the system.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
StackStorm/st2contrib
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:152 commits, 59 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Lakshmi's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the StackStorm contribution repository. They addressed references to content packs, potentially fixing integration issues. Furthermore, they introduced a new AWS pack by adding sensors and actions for EC2 and volume monitoring, demonstrating the expansion of the repository's capabilities. The user also worked on improving the sensu and nagios event handlers, improving the integration with StackStorm, and resolving API updates.
nodejsexchangestackstorm
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