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Raja Krishnan

San Francisco,CA

Summary

  • Engineering leader with 12+ years of experience in building highly scalable software products using Java, GO, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.
  • 5+ years of leading multiple products, focusing on backend development, microservices, scalability, and performance of applications.
  • 5+ years of experience in leading scrum teams, and mentoring team members.
  • Solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems with experience in processing huge volumes of data using Kafka, Snowflake, GraphDB, SQL databases, and NoSQL databases.
  • Experience in performance benchmarking, developing integration test frameworks, and application observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead

Sysdig
01.2023 - Current
  • Leading Sysdig Secure Graph Data platform team, PoC efforts with Neo4j, and load testing
  • Co-designed and developed gathering and ingestion services for data platform using GO and Neo4J
  • Data were in silos and presenting a unified view of resources and risks to customers was not possible. Ingestion service listens to various product lines and ingests them into GraphDB
  • Coordinating with the product team to deliver Graph-based features to customers
  • inventory service - one-stop shop to get all details about cloud and non-cloud assets
  • Attack Paths - Provide the source of risk through graph traversals (EC2 exposure, EC2 to S3 access, Critical severity vulnerability, etc.)
  • Risk Engine - Periodic querying of the graph to present possible risks like Policy violations, Control violations, High confidence events (live risk), etc
  • Re-architect ingestion service to scale horizontally and improve throughput.
  • Eliminate deadlock issues with Neo4j, Optimize transformer services for graph-specific queries, and increase the capacity of processors by 5X

Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead

Lacework
02.2021 - 01.2023
  • Led a four-member team that successfully delivered the Lacework SaaS platform's alerting and reporting service enhancements and achieved a 10x scale in 3 months
  • Pioneered the shift left initiatives in the org and migrated services to the 'ship anytime' model
  • Policies team reduced their time of getting new policies to customers from 2 weeks to 2 hours
  • Designed and developed a self-serving platform to generate reports of any kind for customers
  • Besides out-of-box reports provided by Lacework, customers were able to customize policies from different policy types and visualize multi-cloud posture management in a single report
  • Oversaw the CSPM and KSPM portfolio, drove the cross-functional squad managing their sprints, guiding the team members with a clear roadmap, and successfully delivered the product
  • Led a team of 4 engineers across different time zones and teams to successfully deliver the product under a tight schedule, and enhanced Lacework’s capabilities in CNAPP
  • Instrumented many top-tier customer integrations and strategic partnerships (million-dollar deals).

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce (through the acquisition of Coolan Inc)

Mulesoft (Feb 2020 - Feb 2021)

  • Led the network connectivity features of Mulesoft Cloudhub
  • Designed and developed APIs for Transit Gateway, VPNs, and VPCs to Mulesoft Cloudhub using JavaEE and AWS
  • Designed compatibility matrix for AWS Transit Gateway and other cloud providers and developed a detailed test framework to ensure successful product delivery

Coolan (Aug 2015 - Feb 2020)

  • Delivered APIs in telemetry and analytics platform for Salesforce infrastructure
  • Designed, and developed hardware health data microservices using Kafka
  • This improved the turnaround time for Datacenter engineers in replacing parts from 1 month to 1 hour - Predictive analytics helped us populate parts locker
  • Led the Coolan single sign-on efforts using SAML2 and OAuth2
  • Designed and implemented the elastic cluster into the product for time-series data analysis
  • Enhanced the data team’s capabilities in analyzing and understanding patterns
  • Enabled metrics for the coolan services as well using ELK stack
  • Led efforts to make Coolan open source, collaborating with different open-source teams in salesforce, auditing the codebase
  • Salesforce Certified Scrum Master: Aligning with SFDC agile principles, backlog grooming, facilitating retrospectives, resolving dependencies/conflicts

Member of Technical Staff

VMWare Inc
11.2012 - 08.2015
  • Automated vCenter, a management tool for virtual machines deployed in a data center/host
  • Developed chaos framework from scratch which is based on the idea of the chaos monkey of Netflix
  • Delivered REST APIs for chaos server and chaos engine (a guide to trigger chaos, where & when).

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Chicago
06.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
05.2008

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • GO
  • Spring
  • REST
  • GRPC
  • JSON
  • Microservices
  • Dropwizard

Timeline

Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead

Sysdig
01.2023 - Current

Senior Staff Software Engineer/Team Lead

Lacework
02.2021 - 01.2023

Member of Technical Staff

VMWare Inc
11.2012 - 08.2015

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce (through the acquisition of Coolan Inc)

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Chicago

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
Raja Krishnan