Venkat A
Sr Business Systems Analyst Product Manager at Uber
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkat A is a finance-focused technology leader with 15+ years bridging ERP, SaaS and finance systems, and 11 years of hands-on experience delivering ERP upgrades, financial transformation and reporting solutions across Oracle Cloud Financials, E-Biz, Dynamics 365 and tools like Coupa, Blackline and PowerBI. Currently a Senior Business Systems Analyst / Product Manager at Uber, he combines chartered-accountant rigor with product and program management to translate complex accounting requirements into reliable, auditable enterprise implementations. He has led end-to-end implementations and supported long-running projects, and brings practical knowledge of Jira, Confluence and ITSM tools to streamline delivery. Unusually for a finance systems lead, he also contributes to open-source distributed systems—fixing race conditions and improving reliability in projects like Cherami and Cadence—demonstrating strong backend and DevOps instincts that help operationalize large-scale financial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Accounting and Finance at Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityGrad Cost accountant Cost Management Accounting, Grad Cost accountant Cost Management Accounting at Institute of Cost Accountants of IndiaChartered Accountant, Chartered Accountant at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (30)
back-end-development10
testing10
cadence10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
message-queue10
go10
golang10
functionfs10
versioning10
metadata-management10
devops10
cassandra9
databases9
thrift9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cadence-workflow/cadence-go-client
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Framework for authoring workflows and activities running on top of the Cadence orchestration engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 28 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Venkat primarily focused on enhancing the Cadence Go client library. Their work included sending the client library version with every RPC call for improved compatibility and versioning. They also refactored and updated tchannel context usage by using default options and added tests. Furthermore, the user made significant changes to the internal workings of the client, including adding copyright headers, and verifying domain existence at worker start time, indicating contributions to internal infrastructure and reliability.
golangworkflow-functionscadenceorchestrationauthoring-workflows
uber-archive/cherami-server
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system. This project is deprecated and not maintained.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 commits, 51 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Venkat primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Cherami server, fixing race conditions within the lock manager, and implementing new administrative CLI features such as service config management. They also addressed a bug to prevent duplicate redelivery messages. Furthermore, the user made changes to the deployment and operational aspects by ensuring the DLQ extent quotas were honored and improving the reliability and performance of the system, by implementing the feature to drain extent before sealing.
golangscalablemessage-queuedurabletask-queue
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