Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Innovation and Idea Submission
Certification
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Krishna Kumar Patra

Austin,TX

Summary

Innovative and impact-driven Software Engineer with over 15+ years of experience in designing and delivering scalable distributed systems. Proven success at Amazon, Cisco, and Infosys in leading architecture, development, and cross-functional teams across complex projects.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
08.2017 - Current
  • Amazon Security Review : Architected and built components of a platform for managing organization-wide security compliance, automating reviewer workflows and validations
  • Scrutinizer : Led design and implementation of a malware scanning service processing over 1 million files/hour within SLA(15 sec/50Mb); integrated multiple scanning engines for enhanced accuracy
  • Cloud Ranger : Designed and implemented components of agent lifecycle management for millions of EC2 instances; ensured persistent compliance in ephemeral infrastructure
  • High Castle : Secure, reusable AWS Blueprint templates for internal development teams; accelerated secure infra provisioning
  • ADX Reporting & App Submission : Scaled developer analytics and submission platform across multiple verticals; reduced latency and improved user experience

Technical Lead

Cisco Systems
09.2013 - 04.2016
  • Unified Communications Deployment Tool: Spearheaded the redesign of a UC provisioning system into a plug-and-play framework, reducing rollout time of new device support from weeks to 2 days
  • Cisco Data Pump: Built 'Data Pump' for ETL pipelines across heterogeneous sources, powering system or devices update, downstream analytics and dashboards.

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
06.2009 - 08.2012
  • Delivered features and estimations for LexisNexis Rosetta, a multi-region legal search platform supporting 17 locales
  • Enhanced multilingual and content-specific search algorithms; contributed to front-end and middleware components
  • Practiced Agile delivery, participated in demos, and collaborated cross-functionally with regional teams

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) -

Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)
03-2009

Skills

  • Languages: Java, Nodejs, TypeScript, JavaScript
  • Frameworks/Libraries: Spring Boot, ReactJs
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, EMR, CloudFormation, Athena, CloudFront, etc)
  • DevOps & Tools: Jenkins, Selenium, Apache Velocity Engine, Hibernate
  • Big Data: Hadoop, Spark (EMR)
  • Practices: Agile, Microservices, CI/CD, Scalability, High Availability

Innovation and Idea Submission

Amazon

  • Proposed an AI-powered chatbot integrated with backend databases and enterprise tools (SOPs, tickets, Slack) to enable natural language querying and support automation; selected for intern project implementation.
  • File Scanning Service: Suggested a file scanning service that can detect malware in incoming files, enhancing security and protecting the system from potential threats.
  • Centralized Patient Health Record System: Proposed a system where doctors can access patient health records with patient permission, ensuring emergency access and supporting insurance companies by providing comprehensive patient history.
  • Unique ID System: Submitted an idea to create a unique ID for individuals that contains address and phone number, allowing users to update their details in a central portal, reducing the need for notifying multiple entities like banks.
  • Client-Specific Throttling Service: Proposed a service to manage throttling limits for clients, enabling onboarded services to fetch and apply throttling limits based on client IDs, improving resource management and preventing overload.
  • Submitted an AI assistant concept for Security Engineers to analyze code during security reviews, find vulnerabilities with the potential to save 4–5 hours per review. Added to the roadmap.
  • Submitted an AI-driven concept to auto-generate and execute security integration test cases by analyzing source code, automating pentesting, and reducing reliance on static analysis tools.

Cisco

  • Proposed and implemented UI design and workflow for the UCDT tool aimed at improving user interaction and making the interface more intuitive and user-friendly.

Certification

  • Oracle Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
  • 7× Cisco Connected Recognition Awards
  • Best Tool Award – Q3 2010-2011 (Infosys)
  • Cisco CAP Award Recipient
  • Whitepaper in Cisco: One Parser for All XML

Timeline

Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon
08.2017 - Current

Technical Lead

Cisco Systems
09.2013 - 04.2016

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd.
06.2009 - 08.2012

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) -

Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT)

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