Santosh Allu
Summary
Lead Software Engineer (11+ years) specializing in large-scale distributed systems, and hyperscale global cloud services. Architected and led delivery of real-time event pipelines and low-latency, fault-tolerant platforms, serving millions of requests per second across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Proven track record of driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and shipping mission-critical systems, end-to-end.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Microsoft - Azure Event Grid
Seattle, WA
05.2022 - Current
- Led 3 engineers in building a near real-time rules management service, ensuring global replication of customer-defined rules for fast, consistent event evaluation and routing at scale.
- Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant, globally replicated service to synchronize Azure resource CRUD operations, ensuring high availability, strong consistency, and low latency at scale.
- Developed a distributed cache prototype on Service Fabric stateful services using RAM and flash storage, reducing projected costs by 80 percent compared to Redis.
- Mentored engineers, conducted design/code reviews, and collaborated across Azure teams to deliver critical milestones on time.
- Contributed to new Microsoft Fabric features, leveraging Event Grid as the delivery platform to improve adoption and scale event traffic across Azure regions.
- Built features across the control and data planes, including Private Link based secure end-to-end data transfer and message forwarding to broadcast events across multiple topics
Senior Software Engineer
Symantec/Broadcom
Draper, UT
06.2018 - 05.2022
- Migrated Presto and custom HiveServer from AWS EMR to Kubernetes, simplifying deployments via Helm charts.
- Designed and built Executive Reports providing visibility into threat trends, incident activity, and remediation effectiveness for leadership insights.
- Developed and designed cloud portable, highly available, scalable log download service which handles of millions of log lines every day.
- Migrated all the above services from AWS to GCP and transitioned to common APIs which interacts with different cloud providers.
- Designed and implemented a real-time log streaming service processing billions of events per day using Kafka, replacing cloud-specific streaming solutions like Amazon Kinesis and Google Pub/Sub.
- Maintained and migrated critical security services including Malware Analysis and Cloud Firewall to a unified multi-cloud architecture
Senior Software Engineer
SalesForce
Salt Lake City, UT
11.2014 - 06.2018
- Developed Java-based APIs and re-engineered search functionality, reducing query complexity and code size, resulting in a 100x+ improvement in execution speed.
- Implemented new features in the C backend, bridging collaboration between the Java and C teams.
- Lead the team of four developers and mentored team members.
- Refactored complex codebases to improve maintainability, enabling new developers to onboard faster, and contribute efficiently.
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
Hyderabad, India
06.2010 - 12.2012
- Contributed to e-commerce application development, including UI implementation and integration with third-party services like Bazaarvoice and Omniture.
Education
M.S. - Computer Science
Utah State University
Logan, UT09.2014
B.E. - Electronics
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology
AP, India05.2010
Skills
- Java
- C sharp
- C
- JavaScript
- Spring/Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Distributed Systems
- Kafka
- Rabbit MQ
- GRPC
- REST API
- SQL
- Oracle
- Postgres
- Redis
- CosmosDB
- ORC
- Presto
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Service Fabric
- Microsoft Fabric
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Microsoft - Azure Event Grid
05.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Symantec/Broadcom
06.2018 - 05.2022
Senior Software Engineer
SalesForce
11.2014 - 06.2018
Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
06.2010 - 12.2012
M.S. - Computer Science
Utah State University
B.E. - Electronics
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology