Summary
Venkata A is a Lead Software Engineer at Capital One with 9 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and APIs that power document and imaging platforms used by millions. He combines backend expertise in Java, Spring, Python, Kafka and AWS with hands-on data engineering—building high-throughput ingestion pipelines into Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL and operating services via ECS, Lambda and observability tooling. As a tech lead he drives architecture, automation testing, and cloud infrastructure while mentoring teams to deliver resilient, event-driven microservices at scale. He has a pragmatic product focus from prior work on customer-facing web apps and payments eligibility services, and a master’s in software engineering that underpins his emphasis on engineering rigor. Notably, he pairs steady operational ownership with curiosity in machine learning, reflecting an appetite to bridge data, APIs and distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Applied computer science, Master’s Degree Applied computer science at Northwest Missouri State University