Lova Katikala
Principal Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolLova Katikala is a Principal Group Software Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience building scalable cloud, browser, and enterprise systems, and over a decade of leadership at Microsoft. He combines deep technical expertise in AI agents, applied AI systems, Azure, Big Data, DevOps and AIOps with a proven track record of architecting cloud-native, data-driven platforms that operate at scale. Known for building high-performing, inclusive teams, he excels at turning complex ideas into product-grade solutions and driving cross-functional initiatives from early-stage discovery to operational excellence. Lova has hands-on open-source and DevOps experience—contributing to Microsoft’s widely used azure-pipelines-tasks, notably enhancing Azure Key Vault integrations and error handling. He often partners with startups and scaling teams as an advisor or execution lead, helping them accelerate delivery and scale reliably. Based in Hyderabad, he blends strategic vision with pragmatic engineering execution across both startup and large-enterprise contexts.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology, HyderabadIntermediate (11 12), Intermediate (11 12) at Aditya Junior College, Kakinada
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Github Skills (15)
azure-devops-server10
error-handling10
azure-devops10
azure-keyvault10
powershell9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
json7
azure-pipelines6
api6
automation6
automations6
apidoc6
cicd6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 commits, 55 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Lova primarily contributed to tasks related to the Azure Key Vault task, including initial implementation, bug fixes, and improving error messaging. Their work involved changes to the core operations, models, and tests related to interacting with Azure Key Vault. The user also appears to have focused on enhancing error handling, including specific access denied messages and formatting secrets.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
Lovakumar/TestApp
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
Utils project
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years
utils
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