Venkat Yalla
Product ServiceNow
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkat Yalla is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 9 years of experience building enterprise edge and cloud-native solutions, currently driving product at ServiceNow after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He led 0-1 offerings in edge computing, incubating and launching Azure IoT Edge and the IoT MQ messaging platform, shaping industry-grade features that won early customer adoption. His background as a senior systems engineer at Intel informs a deep understanding of hardware-software co-design, power and virtualization optimizations that scaled into millions of devices and cut platform development time dramatically. Venkat blends hands-on contributions to open-source tooling—improving Windows installation scripts and container support for Azure/iotedge—with product strategy, ensuring technical debt is managed while shipping robust platforms. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he excels at translating low-level system insights into pragmatic product roadmaps for distributed IoT and edge scenarios. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering rigor and customer-driven productization, often surfacing non-obvious system optimizations that materially improve performance and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Clemson UniversityBS Computer and Information Systems, BS Computer and Information Systems at Osmania University
Github Skills (12)
windows10
powershell10
automation10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
cicd10
scripting9
containerization9
iot9
wsl28
azure-iot-edge7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 22 commits, 44 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Venkat primarily contributed to the improvement and maintenance of the Windows installation scripts for the IoT Edge security daemon. Their work involved modifying scripts to support Linux containers on Windows, updating Windows Moby engine and CLI versions, and correcting configurations related to WSL2. They also fixed bugs, removed dependencies, and modified the installation process to improve stability and functionality.
edge-computingossmqttedgeopc
Azure/iotedge-vm-deploy
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
ARM template to deploy a VM with IoT Edge pre-installed (via cloud-init)
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
vmscloud-initinstallededgearm-template
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