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Sudhir Pulla

Technology Executive
San Ramon,CA

Summary

Seasoned Technology Executive with a successful track record of delivering over 16 years for internet scale platforms, products and services. Over 8 years of rich multi-level and multi-functional leadership experience in engineering organizations of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises.

Execution focused and results oriented leader, proficient in enhancing organizational and operational efficiency. Highly successful in creating vision, developing strategy, setting goals, fostering relationships and identifying opportunities.

Work History

VP & Head of Engineering

Cogni Inc
San Francisco, CA
01.2021 - Current
  • As the de-facto CTO, Head all aspects of Technology, Engineering and IT for the company
  • Transformed the product and engineering by optimizing the execution, delivery and release cycle.
  • Worked with CEO and the investors to helped secure a big round of funding
  • Develop technology roadmaps, strategy, direction, processes, business alignment and standards
  • Define KPIs and the set goals for the company and the organization.
  • Build and ship, in the cloud, highly scalable and reliable mobile fin-tech products like Digital Banking, Multi-Chain Crypto Web3 Wallet, Lifestyle and Lending.
  • Coach and mentor managers at all levels and provide leadership and feedback to improve cross functional teams.
  • Communicate and update the executive leadership, board of directors and investors about the health of the organization.
  • Foster relationships with technology partners to identify new business opportunities and competitive advantages for the company.


Sr Mgr & Head of SaaS Engineering

Quantcast
San Francisco, CA
02.2018 - 12.2020
  • Engineering head for digital marketing products built upon one of the largest computing infrastructures in the world.
  • Lead and manage the engineering for multiple consumer products including Audience Planning, Audience Insights, Experimentation, Publisher Targeting, Attribution and Consent & Privacy
  • AI based deep Insights from over 30+ PB of daily data to aid Publishers and Marketers for Ad Targeting
  • Develop and drive strategic direction, roadmap and set goals that define success for the organization
  • Drive continuous improvement for the organization, culture and processes.
  • Widely recognized as a company leader and contributed to organization wide initiatives and direction.


Director / Principal Engineer

Visa Digital Products (V.me As A Startup)
Foster City, CA
06.2011 - 01.2018
  • Founding member of Visa Checkout (Renamed as 'Click To Pay') and other Visa’s first Consumer facing products.
  • Responsible for delivering internet scale eCommerce Platforms like digital wallet, digital payments & checkout, fraud & risk management etc.
  • Scaled from ZERO to 8 million consumers and 4000+ merchants in the first 2 years.
  • Improved the platform scalability to about 3500 real-time payment TPS, with 9999 availability
  • Delivered reusable components, APIs and Services for Visa Checkout, Card Tokenization and Cloud based payments (Apple Pay, Android Pay etc)
  • Led security and compliance teams to deliver Identity Management, Risk based authentication, Encryption Services, Mobile Security, 3D Secure, PCI, GDPR, AML, OFAC, and Audit


Lead Engineer

NASA Ames Research Center
Mountain View, CA
10.2008 - 06.2011
  • Key member of Intelligent Systems Division’s Information Architecture Team for NASA’s Constellation Space Program’s (CxP) that was meant to deliver the next generation of space vehicles.
  • Enabled information interoperability through definition of standards for information exchange and development of general purpose and domain-specific registries.


Manager

Computer Sciences (at Visa)
Foster City, CA
04.2007 - 10.2008
  • Visa’s Flexible Access Control (FAC), which provided common tools for Identity and Access Management.
  • Responsible for User Management and integration with Visa Access Management (AM) and Visa Online (VOL)


Director

Smart IMS
Portland, OR
10.2003 - 04.2007
  • Managed teams for Freightliner LLC, led migration of Mainframe projects on to a new Open Java EE platform.
  • Responsible for Resource management and alignment of teams and execution of projects
  • As an outsourced manager, partnered with client’s leadership team to deliver the projects on time and within budget


Sr Engineer

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions
Santa Clara, CA
06.2000 - 07.2003
  • Developed POS solutions for Retail customers (Safeway, Albertsons, Longs, Nordstrom’s, REI etc.)
  • Developed custom web based CRM solutions for REI and Health Care

Sr Engineer

Inpower (Acquired By CSC)
San Francisco, CA
12.1997 - 05.2000
  • Design and development of Human Resource Management Systems (InPower and Peoplesoft)
  • Responsible for managing HR and Payroll systems for American Axle & Manufacturing
  • PeopleSoft Corp – Benefits and Dependents self-service modules of first Web based PeopleSoft product

Education

Master of Science - Information Systems

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
05.2001 -

Skills

    Executive Leadership

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Software

Java, Python, Go

AWS

Docker, Kubernetes, EKS

Postgres, Oracle, DB2, MySQL

Jenkins, CircleCI, Argo CD

Hadoop, EMR, Spark, Kafka

DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Athena, Presto

Redis, Memcache

Timeline

VP & Head of Engineering

Cogni Inc
01.2021 - Current

Sr Mgr & Head of SaaS Engineering

Quantcast
02.2018 - 12.2020

Director / Principal Engineer

Visa Digital Products (V.me As A Startup)
06.2011 - 01.2018

Lead Engineer

NASA Ames Research Center
10.2008 - 06.2011

Manager

Computer Sciences (at Visa)
04.2007 - 10.2008

Director

Smart IMS
10.2003 - 04.2007

Master of Science - Information Systems

Eastern Michigan University
05.2001 -

Sr Engineer

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions
06.2000 - 07.2003

Sr Engineer

Inpower (Acquired By CSC)
12.1997 - 05.2000

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