Venkat Venkataraju
Cloud Security Engineer at Splunk
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkat Venkataraju is a cloud security engineer with 14 years of experience building and hardening distributed systems across major consumer and security-focused companies. Currently at Splunk, he leverages deep software engineering roots from long tenures at Yahoo! and Yubico to bridge product-scale reliability with practical security controls. His background spans hands-on development, principal engineering leadership, and platform security—bringing both low-level implementation experience and strategic architecture judgment. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from UIC with a proven track record of shipping secure, scalable services in high-throughput environments. Notably, his career arc shows a steady shift from core software engineering into cloud security leadership, making him adept at translating developer workflows into auditable, secure cloud operations.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at University of MadrasMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English
Github Skills (22)
continuous-integration9
screwdriver9
api9
continuous-delivery8
javascript8
kubernetes7
docker7
devops6
python6
toolbox6
sdk5
automation5
okta5
docker-container4
electron3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
outofjungle/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
outofjungle/tmux
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:19 commits in 2 months
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