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Srikanth Valluru

Summary

Director of Software Engineering with 20+ years in enterprise infrastructure transformation and multi-cloud strategy for high-volume trading platforms. Specializes in cloud-native architectures, microservices, and AI/MLOps, achieving performance boosts, resilience, and cost efficiency. Expert in mentoring global teams and aligning tech initiatives with business objectives, ensuring scalable, secure solutions on time and budget. Recognized for strategic planning, team leadership, and operational efficiency.

  • “Lead by Example” and my favorite quote by Jim Collins: Great Leaders are those who aren’t needed!
  • Cloud Architecture, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, (“Shift Left” software/security principles), AIOps, MLOps, AgenticAI, LLM models, SaaS, Integration fabric

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

DIRECTOR - Software Engineering

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
01.2020 - Current
  • Directed global Cloud Platform & SRE organization of 30+, achieving 99.99% uptime across 500+ microservices.
  • Enhanced system reliability by 45% through chaos engineering and chaos buffet experiments.
  • Reduced cloud expenditures by $3.2M annually via automated capacity planning and performance tuning.
  • Engineered 70% faster and secure release cycles with CI/CD pipelines implemented across 200+ services.
  • Designed and scaled over 200 internal/external APIs, enabling over 10 billion secure transactions annually.
  • Drove API-first modernization, decreasing partner integration time from weeks to hours.
  • Standardized API governance, increasing developer productivity by 30% across 15 teams.
  • Implemented ML-driven anomaly detection, cutting false-positive alerts by 70% and improving MTTR by 50%.
  • Built predictive ML models for traffic forecasting, increasing capacity planning accuracy by 40%.
  • Piloted Generative AI–powered incident response assistant, reducing on-call cognitive load by 35%.
  • Led deployment of GenAI copilots for SRE workflows, reducing incident triage time by 45%.
  • Applied Genetic AI optimization for auto-scaling, improving resource efficiency by 30%.
  • Partnered with data science teams to apply evolutionary/Genetic AI models for capacity forecasting, boosting accuracy from 70% to 92%.
  • Integrated ML + GenAI – LLM driven for predictive traffic management, avoiding $5M+ in potential downtime costs.
  • Automated 90% of infrastructure provisioning with Terraform/Kubernetes, cutting lead times from days to minutes.
  • Eliminated 1,500+ manual ops hours/year with self-healing automation.
  • Integrated AI-assisted code review, improving engineering throughput by 25%.
  • Accelerated digital transformation roadmap by 18 months through cloud-native + AI adoption.
  • Enabled 10x customer growth (5M → 50M users) without compromising performance.
  • Partnered with C-suite to align AI/ML/GenAI investments, resulting in $50M new revenue streams.
  • Embedded OWASP Top 10 principles into SDLC, reducing critical web vulnerabilities by 65%. Deployed SAST/DAST pipelines across 200+ services, cutting security defect leakage by 50%.
  • Integrated Software Composition Analysis (SCA), eliminating 95% of high-risk open-source vulnerabilities.
  • Established SBOM standards across microservices, ensuring 100% traceability for third-party components. Strengthened container security (runtime scanning, image hardening) reducing exploitable CVEs by 70% and built IaC security guardrails in Terraform/Kubernetes, preventing 200+ misconfiguration risks before production.
  • Achieved 100% compliance across 15 audits (SOC2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001).

SENIOR MANAGER/PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT - INFRASTRUCTURE/CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
05.2017 - 01.2020
  • Guided selection and oversight of full lifecycle for cloud products from R&D to production deployment.
  • Demonstrated expertise in automation with Chef and Ansible, designing solutions for containerized applications.
  • Streamlined migration to Kubernetes platforms including EKS, AKS, and Rancher.
  • Provided leadership to L1 and L2 Engineers, coordinating on-call rotations for 24/7 operational support.
  • Delegated tasks based on complexity and priority to ensure efficient team performance.
  • Analyzed Terraform, Packer, and Vault from HashiCorp to create architecture workflows.
  • Evaluated three-tier app architecture design with effective deployment using LAMP stack.
  • Spearheaded blue/green deployments across all environment stages.

CONSULTANT - INFRASTRUCTURE/SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
06.2007 - 05.2017
  • Led service management and data center migrations by leveraging ITL tools like ServiceNow and orchestrators such as RunDeck, BladeLogic BSA/BSO, and Resolve Systems, focusing on L1/L2 support.
  • Planned, designed, owned, and supported 1000+ servers (both production and non-production) in virtual and physical environments as the subject matter expert during pre-cloud days.
  • Orchestrated data center migrations, cloud hosting, upgrades, server builds, setup/configuration, hardware procurement, and capacity planning with performance analysis.
  • Steered infrastructure builds across all tier levels, with expertise in server hardware (HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge), VMware ESX, Solaris zones/CoOp setups, and storage solutions (SAN, NAS).
  • Planned and executed critical high-volume trading projects requiring low-latency networks, from HTML-based applications to RDBMS backends; developed and implemented an automated install/build process for Middleware products using a complete set of cookbooks, establishing a standardized deployment model.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

METLIFE INSURANCE AND HANOVER INSURANCE
01.2005 - 01.2007
  • Designed and implemented systems solutions for insurance applications and processes.
  • Managed system upgrades and migrations for improved operational efficiency.

Education

Master of Science - Engineering

University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
01-2005

Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

University of Madras
India
10-2001

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS services (any and every), CLI, CFT and Terraforn, Containers, Finops, K8s (GPU and CPU), Sagemaker, bedrock and Jupyter based app integrations, MPI operators, ARM, Cloud Native Computer Foundation (CNCF) Graduated Projects, WAF, TOGAF Architecture Framework, Azure, GCP
  • Architecture frameworks: WAF, TOGAF, Mono to Micro - Straddle, API designs (REST/SOAP), SOA, Serverless Arch, Event driven, gRPC, GraphQL
  • Container orchestration: Terraform, Config Management tools Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CI/CD: gitlab, github, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, DevSecOps/GitOps/SysOps, CrossPlane, Backstage
  • AI/ML frameworks: Pytorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas, AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker Studio/Jumpstart, Claude, ConversationalAI, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM evaluation, JupyterLab
  • Observability tools: Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Splunk, ELK
  • Programming languages: Shell Bash, Java, SQL, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Json, YAML, Groovy, JavaScript
  • Middleware solutions: IBM WebSphere, MQ, Oracle Fusion suite
  • API management: WSO2, Apigee
  • Database technologies: Aurora RDS, Oracle, SQLServer, Postgres MySQL, no-SQL DynamoDB, Neo4j
  • Networking solutions: AWS VPC, Cisco GSS, F5, AVI
  • Perf Tools: JMaaS, Wily IntroScope, JProbe, HP Diag Probe/Load Runner, Chaos Tests, Chaos Buffet, k6
  • Web Frameworks: Node, React, Django, Flask, FastAPI
  • Product Security: OWASP, SAST, DAST, SCA, Container and IaC security, OPA, SBOM

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, 2023
  • Certified Kubernetes Admin, 2022
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect, 2018
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 2018
  • IBM Middleware certifications, 2005, 2008

Timeline

DIRECTOR - Software Engineering

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
01.2020 - Current

SENIOR MANAGER/PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT - INFRASTRUCTURE/CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
05.2017 - 01.2020

CONSULTANT - INFRASTRUCTURE/SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
06.2007 - 05.2017

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

METLIFE INSURANCE AND HANOVER INSURANCE
01.2005 - 01.2007

Master of Science - Engineering

University of New Brunswick

Bachelor of Science - ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

University of Madras

Hobbies and Interests

  • Tennis (coach my son and recreational)
  • Avid bicycle rider
  • Coffee nerd
  • Car enthusiast
  • Traveling
  • Golfing
  • Collecting antiquities
  • Photography
  • Literature

Awards

5x Star Achiever Award

References

References available upon request.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Tennis (coach and recreational)
  • Avid bicycle rider
  • Coffee nerd
  • Car enthusiast

Awards

5x Star Achiever Award

ICON Team Award

Employee of the quarter Award

References

References available upon request.

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