Veena Setlur
San Ramon,CA
Summary
With over 25 years of software engineering experience, including 10 years in engineering leadership, I am adept at building and managing large R&D teams across multiple geographies. Throughout my career, I have successfully developed, released products on time, time after time, within budget, keeping gross margin in mind and provided ongoing support. I am known to collaborate, and communicate effectively with customers, architects, product management, customer support, and sales teams. I prioritize deliverables effectively, set goals and ensure to bring the best out in teams and individuals.
I have more than 15 years of experience in designing, developing, and supporting an enterprise SaaS -product/platform Digital Safe and applications on top of it, that solved archiving, compliance, supervisory and ediscovery needs of large financial firms and managed data volume in Petabytes within a private cloud infrastructure and brought in 6 figure revenue.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/veena-setlur-267b904/
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Director of Engineering
Smarsh - Archiving & Compliance
2022.03 - 2024.07
- Streamlined Digital Safe releases and incorporated DORA metrics
- Spearheaded a migrations project from Digital Safe to Enterprise Archive (flagship Smarsh product) on AWS, that enabled migration of Petabytes of data in a matter of weeks instead of years.
- COGS reduction of Digital Safe resources
- Led a SRE team and enabled observability which in turn led to a highly stable product
- Customer facing providing technical expertise and guidance
Director of Engineering
Micro Focus (OpenText)
2020.06 - 2022.01
- Released Digital Safe 10 - new architecture which was based on microservices, Ceph, ElasticSearch, new UI based on Aspects, and SALT based deployments
- Streamlined engineering processes for increased efficiency, leading to faster project completion and reduced costs. Consolidating JIRA projects, enabling better collaboration between 12+ scrum teams
- Implemented Scaled Agile and took part in PI planning
- Eng Documentation consolidation in Confluence
Software Engineering Manager
Micro Focus (OpenText)
2015.06 - 2020.07
- Managed software release cycles with careful planning, coordination, and communication across various departments in the midst of acquisition.
- Digital Safe new architecture work kickoff, while still continuing to keep customers satisfied with the legacy release all while following Agile.
- Release on time, team velocity assessments, communicating to stakeholders on release content
- Released patent https://patents.justia.com/patent/10324624
Software Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2017.06 - 2020.06
- Lead a couple of application development scrum teams,
- Code consolidation of Lucene and IDOL code bases, upgraded Lucene to 4.4, Automated unit tests through TestNG
- Presented a paper on fast and interactive search against a large corpus of data at HPE annual R&D conference
Principal Engineer
@ Zantaz Inc, @Autonomy, @HPE
2005.04 - 2015.05
- Responsible for implementation, enhancements and support of Indexing, Search and Retrieval code
- Lucene search engine code customizations
- Integration with IDOL Search Engine from Autonomy
- Internationalization of Digital Safe, integration with Natural Language Processing Software
- File filtering technology: Keyview IDOL
- Responsible for data consistency, index health and keeping data mirrors in sync (Reconciliation)
- Addressing critical production issues, performance problems, memory utilization issues and resolution
- Key interface into Operations from Engineering to keep day to day Operations of Digital Safe going
- Worked extensively on products Audit Center, Supervisor (S6), Retention application which require large query executions, and large scale data retrievals
- Worked on End User mail box search application which requires very efficient search and retrieval of documents
- Worked extensively on reprocessing of archived data
- Deduplication of data and Archiving
- Code review, unit tests, functional specifications, project documentation.
Sr. Software Engineer
Zantaz Inc
2001.11 - 2005.04
- Muliple versions of Digital Safe released
- Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
Software Engineer
Zantaz Inc
1999.05 - 2001.11
- Developed multiple features for Digital Safe, an enterprise archiving platform for financial firms
- Responsible for developing indexing and search features
- Java, Lucene
Software Engineer
Legato (formerly known as Intelliguard Systems)
1997.01 - 1999.05
- Responsible for porting flagship backup software product BudTool from C to Java
- Responsible for maintenance and support of BudTool
- Technologies/Tools used: Java/J2EE, CVS, Servlets, CGI, C.
Software Engineer
Wipro Infotech (Global R&D)
1995.01 - 1996.08
- Member of technical staff for AT&T dedicated facility maintaining NCR code base
- Technologies/Tools used: UNIX, C, shell scripting.
Education
BS in Computer Science -
Bangalore University
B.M.S College Of Engineering06.1994
Skills
- Leading Global R&D
- Product Development
- Customer Focus
- Stakeholder Management
- Problem-solving abilities
- Excellent Communication
- Team building
- Task Prioritization
- Goal Setting
- Budget coordination
- System Architecture
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Engineering Documentation
- Project Management
Keywords
- Cloud based massive data archival and retrieval
- SaaS
- Compliance and Enterprise Search
- Search Engines: Lucene, Autonomy IDOL, ElasticSearch
- Java: Server-Side Java, J2EE, JMX, JNDI, JDBC, RMI, JUnit, SOAP, XML
- Languages: Java, C, Shell Scripting, Python
- Distributed Frameworks: RMI, NIO
- Application Servers: Wildfly, JBoss
- SQL/Relational Databases: Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL
- Internationalization (i18n), CJK, Unicode, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Teragram
- Development Environments: Linux/UNIX, Java Platform
- Code Management Systems/Integration: Github, Perforce, CVS, Subversion, Hudson
- Collaboration: JIRA, Wiki, Confluence
- Development: Unit Testing, Code Profiling, OOP/OOD, Design Patterns, UML, Algorithms, Data Structures
- IDE: Eclipse, IntelliJ
- Email - SMTP, ESMTP
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Sr. Director of Engineering
Smarsh - Archiving & Compliance
2022.03 - 2024.07
Director of Engineering
Micro Focus (OpenText)
2020.06 - 2022.01
Software Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2017.06 - 2020.06
Software Engineering Manager
Micro Focus (OpenText)
2015.06 - 2020.07
Principal Engineer
@ Zantaz Inc, @Autonomy, @HPE
2005.04 - 2015.05
Sr. Software Engineer
Zantaz Inc
2001.11 - 2005.04
Software Engineer
Zantaz Inc
1999.05 - 2001.11
Software Engineer
Legato (formerly known as Intelliguard Systems)
1997.01 - 1999.05
Software Engineer
Wipro Infotech (Global R&D)
1995.01 - 1996.08
BS in Computer Science -
Bangalore University
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