SREE KEERTHI KAVURU
Alexandria,VA
Summary
Innovative Director of Engineering with 12+ years developing and applying new technologies to deliver exceptional final products. Combines technical engineering capability with effective management techniques. Dedicated to driving rapid, advanced product development through meticulous oversight of junior staff and hands-on participation.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Engineering
Cisco Systems, Inc.
01.2023 - Current
- Led a 55-person global engineering org across product engineering, ML systems, and platform infrastructure.
- Responsible for $300M+ in annual revenue driven by AI-powered product capabilities within the Meraki platform.
- Managed the end-to-end development of Cisco’s AI Assistant, enabling deterministic workflows and multi-turn generative AI interactions.
- Delivered advanced conversational features such as disambiguation, state tracking, and real-time planning logic.
- Guided architectural decisions around dialog orchestration, observability, response validation, and third-party integrations.
- Partnered closely with PM, Design, and Data Science to ensure alignment across roadmap, user experience, and business goals.
- Fostered a culture of autonomy, experimentation, and high accountability across all teams.
- Improved platform reliability and velocity through strategic investments in tooling, testing, and triage workflows.
- Mentored senior engineers and helped shape hiring strategy, org structure, and career development paths.
- Led the org’s transition to AI-first product development, influencing long-term technical and strategic direction.
Sr Engineering Manager
Invision
05.2021 - Current
- Led and managed multiple teams in platform and product engineering
- Mentored junior software engineers, providing careful guidance of development strategies and education on innovative development techniques.
- Drove high-level strategic planning of development efforts across multiple projects to optimize resource utilization and shorten development times.
- Cultivated partnerships between engineering, product and UX personnel to create holistically designed final products.
- Allied with other engineering leaders to plan, manage and coordinate teams around reaching prescribed development milestones.
- Worked and Led the platform teams working with Golang , react , node , vue js and AWS
Senior Engineering Manager
Hobsons
09.2020 - 05.2021
- Manages 3 high revenue driving projects on the Naviance product line with 22 Direct reports including contractors .
- Worked very closely with the executive team to make sure the the project are inline with overall technology objectives.
- Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
- Worked with the team to maintain story point standardization and high accountability.
- Hired and retained great talent by conducting coding tests and interviews.
- Lead teams working with Nodejs, React , angular ,PhP, Java
- Managed and maintained the Production releases and Production health.
- Committee chair member of the IMPACT 2021 worldwide tech conference for DMGT-Hobsons.
Engineering Manager
The Washington Post
03.2018 - 09.2020
- Lead and mentor multiple projects that handle Washington Post print subscriptions.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices
- Helped hire top talent by conducting coding and technical interviews
- Transitioned the prior waterfall team into 100% agile team immediately on arrival and led the sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives
- Closely worked with business to understand the requirements to ensure that right set of modules been built
- Built a lot of API 's and processes using Node.js, Express.js and integrated them with the front end
Senior Software Engineering Consultant
Tekperfekt Inc.
12.2015 - 02.2018
Web Developer
Vamsi Super Speciality Hospital , HYDERABAD
03.2009 - 06.2015
Education
Masters - Digital Systems And Computers, Electrical Engineering
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Long Beach, CABachelor of Technology - Electronics Engineering, Communications Engineering
2013
Skills
- Developer Onboarding Design
- Performance Tuning
- Team oversight
- Project budgeting
- Resource Allocation
- Software Design
- Team Leadership
- Team Training
- Solutions deployment
- Project planning
- New employee mentoring
- Analytics
- Best practices
- QA processes/code quality
Technical Skills
- HTML
- AWS Certification
- CSS
- DevOps practices and cloud technologies
- Javascript
- Node.js /Express.js
- SQL/noSQL
- Backbone
- AngularJS
- React
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Containers
- Git & CI/CD
- Data Compliance ,
- API design
- Docker
- Jenkins
- React,
- MongoDB,
- Tableau/PowerBI
Affiliations
Engineering Innovation Award
Nov 2018 The Washington Post
Timeline
Director of Engineering
Cisco Systems, Inc.
01.2023 - Current
Sr Engineering Manager
Invision
05.2021 - Current
Senior Engineering Manager
Hobsons
09.2020 - 05.2021
Engineering Manager
The Washington Post
03.2018 - 09.2020
Senior Software Engineering Consultant
Tekperfekt Inc.
12.2015 - 02.2018
Web Developer
Vamsi Super Speciality Hospital , HYDERABAD
03.2009 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics Engineering, Communications Engineering
Masters - Digital Systems And Computers, Electrical Engineering
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY
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