VENKAT SUSARLA

+91 9392307581 | venki.susarla@gmail.com | Bengaluru, India

Professional Summary

I'm a technical people leader with a passion for building teams that make awesome things. I have Proven
leadership characteristics and successfully managed high performing software engineering teams in an Agile
environment. Ardent Agile practitioner and Certified Cloud Architect. Currently leading the Engineering and
QA department consisting of 14 people working across three teams on Cisco's cloud. Detail-oriented
professional who thrives in a high volume multi-tiered environment. Effective hands-on leader with
outstanding success in developing applications to analyze sales growth and marketing strategy

Core Skills and Abilities

➢ Sixteen years' experience implementing and providing support for new software solutions, and
development and assessment of existing infrastructure.
➢ Successfully led and managed complex projects with small and large teams, covering various aspects
of software development process and methodology
➢ Extensive coding experience as full-stack engineer gave me the ability to guide and nurture team
members
➢ Successfully documented processes, workflows, procedures and research to the finest detail.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate effectively with both
internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
➢ Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and analyse the existing legacy application code to
understand architectural level and end-to-end functionality of the application.
➢ Expertise in migrating monolithic systems to microservices oriented architecture.
➢ Highly skilled at Peopleware, Software Development Lifecycle, Project Management, Agile
Development, Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Programming and Java technologies
➢ I worked primarily in the Cloud Computing, General Insurance, Airline, BFSI, Trade Finance (Financial
Supply Chain solutions), and Telecom Domains in various roles starting from team member to
technical team leader
➢ As AWS certified solution architect, architected business solutions for various customers using
Amazon web services

Work History

Technical Leader (Jan 2015 to till date)

Cisco Systems R & D – Bengaluru, IN
Technical Consultant (Mar 2014 to Jan 2015)
Cisco Systems R & D – Bengaluru, IN

Responsibilities:
➢ Main responsibilities involve requirement discussion, proposing solutions, design, development,
unit-testing and issue fixing.
➢ Provide technical leadership and responsible for developing components and the overall
systems design.
 ➢ Discuss, analyze and strategize product design with Product Managers, UX team and Business
Managers.
➢ Plan coordinate and conduct multiple complex software engineering activates.
➢ Create and participate in software planning and estimating, status monitoring and reporting
➢ Recruit employees; assign, direct, and evaluate their work; and oversee the development and
maintenance of staff competence.
➢ Facilitate architecture discussions, process improvements, planning, and other agile rituals,
across cross functional teams
➢ Built new teams by hiring and onboarding engineers and other managers
➢ Coordinate with leadership to define strategy and roadmap features and improvements

Achievements:
➢ Designed and developed enterprise cloud solutions by integrating Cisco cloud products
➢ Early adopter of Agile / Scrum practices for Cisco's product development
➢ Multiple recognition and appreciation awards working with Cisco's Cloud Products for
outstanding work
➢ As Cisco certified security advocate, led team that improved security compliance from 65% to
97%.
➢ Architected business solutions for customers using Cisco's products
➢ Singlehandedly re-designed legacy catalogue product to improve performance by 40%
➢ Driven the team that successfully converted a legacy monolith system to microservice
architecture
➢ Recruited and mentored new joiners to scale, learn and adapt to product and organization
expectations and played vital role in nurturing them to be top performers
➢ Orchestrated DevOps culture in the team

Lead Engineer (Dec 2012 to Nov 2013)

CrimsonLogic Pvt Ltd – Bengaluru, IN

Responsibilities:
➢ Provide maintenance support to customers (internal and/or external) by investigating and
rectifying reported systems shortcomings
➢ Perform and manage all stages of the SDLC and participate in the systems review with Project
Manager
➢ Understand the interdependencies of the services (application, system and database) and able
to pin-point problem areas accurately to improve overall efficiency
➢ Design and document system design, architecture and propose appropriate technologies and
tools required to implement systems; and ensure users sign-off on design specifications
➢ Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test and tune the performance of systems to meet SLA
➢ Keep abreast of technological advancement, emerging standards and new software or
hardware solutions that may affect decisions about system builds or enhancements
➢ Interview prospective employees and mentor junior software developers on the team

Achievements:
➢ Seamlessly handled all phases of the software application from gathering business
requirements to delivery of the multitier application
➢ Played technical project leader role, developed a new multi-threaded application for report
generation, which was later integrated with many other products in the company
➢ Demonstrated ability to quickly adopt to new technology and delivered the software in-time
with good quality
 Sr IT Engineer (Jun 2006 to Sep 2012)
CMC Ltd – Kolkata, IN

Responsibilities:
➢ Responsible for construction and development of insurance application based on the MVC
design pattern and struts
➢ Work as Business Analyst with Claims module, which involves understating the complete flow
of Claims module, Functional discussions, requirement gathering from clients and
documentation
➢ Work closely with clients and SME's to gather requirements and understand the business
needs.
➢ Convert old ESB mule application to Spring framework application
➢ Design and Develop back-end application and API's using RESTful webservices, IBatis, and Spring
MVC
➢ Handle support and maintenance of all existing ticketing application of Qantas Airways
➢ Interview and recruit senior and junior engineers for CMC Ltd and TCS Ltd.

Achievements:
➢ Youngest to become lead in multiple projects. Initially started as individual team member and
promoted to production support technical lead
➢ Selected to work for onsite projects like Qantas Airways, Australia and Deutsche Bank,
Singapore
➢ Recognized by management for single handily delivering one release
➢ Awarded for leading team during major data crisis in a commercial banking product.
➢ Received outstanding performance rating (one of three members out of eighty) for supporting
and maintaining trade finance application
➢ Delivered high value and high demand software applications within short time like, Qantas
ticketing applications like Any Seat Award and Premier economy ticketing for A380
➢ Provided root cause and solution for critical issues (Performance, Concurrency and Row lock).
Education
Education
Education

Aug 2004
Bachelor of Engineering Technology: Electronics
Andhra University | Visakhapatnam, India

Certifications

➢ AWS certified solution architect

➢ CKAD – Certified Kubernetes application developer
➢ Post Graduate program in Big Data Engineering
➢ Cisco Security Ninja - Green Belt
➢ Cisco Security Ninja - White Belt
 Skills

Primary Skills
Java/J2EE, Python, GoLang, AWS solution architect, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate/iBatis, Struts, JSF ,
RESTful, SOAP Web-services, Microservices, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Node, MERN

Secondary Skills
JavaScript, HTML, Ajax, Jquery, Bootstrap, Backbone.js, ExtJS, CSS, XML, JSON, Shell Scripting, JUnit, LDAP,
Tortoise SVN, Eclipse, MySQL, Oracle, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, PL/SQL, Log4j, SSL Certificate, MongoDB,
DynamoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, Agile, Scrum, Git, WebLogic/Tomcat/JBoss Application Server, ElasticSearch, Kibana

Other Roles and Methodologies

Design Patterns, Solution Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Microservice Architecture, Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery(CICD), Test Driven Development(TDD), Pre-sales,
Technical Project Lead