Venkata Modalavalasa
Engineering at Straiker
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkata Modalavalasa is an engineering leader and chief architect with 11 years of experience designing and shipping real-time web and mobile security systems, most recently leading Bot Manager Premier teams at Akamai and now driving engineering at Straiker. He blends hands-on software craftsmanship—spanning backend services, scalable analytics portals, and CI/CD tooling—with team leadership and product-focused security engineering. Venkata’s career includes impactful contributions that reduced manual effort and costs (tools saving hundreds of SWE hours and hardware savings at BHEL) and experience across startups and large enterprises, including an acquisition. Based in California with graduate training in computer engineering, he is known for turning complex anti-bot and security requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions while keeping a playful, developer-first approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityGithub contributions (5)
saikishu/image-processing-algos
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes in 8 months
saikishu/workspace
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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