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Sandeep Yeleswarapu

Raleigh,NC

Summary

With over 15 years of experience in the software industry, I am passionate about building and leading teams that deliver meaningful, impactful and scalable solutions.

I currently work as a Principal Engineering Manager, responsible for Search Platform Engineering team at LexisNexis, focusing on Search, Learning to Rank, Relevance, content Retrieval and content Ingestion.I am motivated by solving challenging problems, creating value to customers and users, and collaborating with talented and diverse teams.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

LexisNexis
Raleigh, NC
08.2015 - Current
  • Leading and managing 3 geographically distributed teams, mentoring/coaching engineers, while providing consulting advice across different engineering teams
  • Building LTR and Semantic (BERT transformer) models to improve our search ranking and relevancy
  • Spearheading the strategic direction of the engineering team, aligning technical decisions with business objectives and ensuring scalability and maintainability of the Search Platform
  • Partner with other cross functional teams - Product, UI/UX, SRE, Operations, Security, Marketing and other engineering groups
  • Writing and Reviewing Architectural Decision Records, and provide technical guidance to the engineering team
  • Revamped and launched LexisNexis flagship Lexis+ core Search Platform, using open source technologies, saving about $10 million in annual licensing costs
  • Designed and led the CI/CD initiative, which resulted in a 40% reduction in build times and a multifold improvement in developer productivity - also, Lead time for change
  • Built a robust, high performant Ingestion pipeline system - using Knative, TriggerMesh, Amazon SQS, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis & Solr - having capacity to ingest 100s of millions of documents in a few hours
  • Responsible for application and infrastructure security, cloud IAM and platform level incident response management
  • Improved agile process and efficiency, ultimately increasing deployment frequency by more than 10x
  • Developed an internal experimentation framework to run A/B experiments for different features, which resulted in 15% revenue growth over the last 2 years
  • Responsible for hiring, performance evaluation, career development and growth.

Senior Software Engineer

Eligible
Hyderabad, India
03.2015 - 07.2015
  • Lead the Connection Monitoring team, integrating connection related notifications to Hipchat team channels, tracking the metrics of API calls and efficiently resolving the failures
  • Integrated Qualys SSL Scan API for vulnerabilities scanning of the incoming connections to Eligible API
  • Led a team of 5 engineers.

Senior Software Engineer

WaveCrest Payments
Hyderabad, India
03.2013 - 03.2015
  • Designed and developed payment APIs for WaveCrest Platform 2.0 - the base banking and finance platform
  • Integrated a 3rd party service provider for payments, Envoy, into Platform 2.0 - using ActiveMQ, Spring
  • Built a Multi-Tenant Android App framework from scratch, which reduced the bootstrap time by to customize the app for multiple Customers
  • Mentored an agile team of 4 engineers.

Software Engineer

Samsung Research Institute
Bangalore, India
07.2009 - 02.2013
  • As an Android OS Upgrade/Migration team member, worked in Commercialization Projects for the flagship phone Samsung Galaxy
  • Built and improved tooling - Calendar, File-Manager, Storage and Calculator applications.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Hyderabad, India
06-2009

Skills

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Distributed Systems Engineering
  • Software Architecture and Design
  • Full Stack Software Engineering

LEADERSHIP

  • Technical Strategy and Execution
  • Cross Functional Team Collaboration
  • Roadmap planning
  • Building and growing high performing teams
  • Setting effective OKRs and KPOs

HANDS ON

  • Java, Angular, Python
  • Spring, Micronaut, REST, gRPC
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Envoy
  • Gitops, Terraform, Jenkins, Gradle, Helm
  • Azure VSTS, ArgoCD
  • RDBMS, NoSql - Redis, Cassandra, SQL Server
  • Apache Solr (Lucene), NLP, LTR
  • AWS, Cloud Security
  • Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

LexisNexis
08.2015 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Eligible
03.2015 - 07.2015

Senior Software Engineer

WaveCrest Payments
03.2013 - 03.2015

Software Engineer

Samsung Research Institute
07.2009 - 02.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)

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