Venkatahari Shankar
Software Engineer at SAP SuccessFactors
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkatahari Shankar is a seasoned backend engineer and cloud architect with over a decade of experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant systems across Java (Spring Boot) and .NET Core. He specializes in cloud-native architectures on Azure and AWS—holding an Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification—and has hands-on expertise in microservices, Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD. At Microsoft he scaled services to hundreds of thousands of RPS/QPS, redesigned monoliths into resilient microservices, and delivered a $70K/month infrastructure cost reduction while enabling half a trillion monthly notifications. Previously he led migrations and search-performance work at SAP SuccessFactors and drove zero-downtime release strategies and Hadoop/MapReduce initiatives at Oracle and Cognizant. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams in remote settings, he blends deep system-design skills and algorithmic thinking with pragmatic delivery focus. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often couples cost optimization with reliability improvements to produce measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, Tamil, KannadaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
PowerShell/PrivateCloud.DiagnosticInfo
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:67 commits, 56 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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