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Venkat Sravan Pentakota

Lead Software Engineer
Charlotte,NC

Summary

Cloud-Centric Solutions Architect with 13+ years of experience designing scalable microservices, secure cloud architectures, and high-performance SDKs. Proven expertise in AWS ecosystem integration, having delivered cloud-native solutions at Intel Security, ServiceNow, and Freshworks. Certified AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) and Google Cybersecurity Professional

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Lead Software Developer

Discovery Analytics
04.2024 - Current
  • Designed and tuned a Bloom filter for cache management, reducing false-positive rates by 40% and improving cache-hit efficiency by 25%.
  • Integrated RedisBloom module with Java backend, used as a hashed data base for quick lookups. Saving significant traffic congestion to the origin server.
  • Migrated 10TB+ MongoDB to AWS DynamoDB, achieving with on-prem performance through: Denormalization & adaptive indexing, reducing query latency by 40%.

Lead Software Developer (Java & AWS)

Freshworks
11.2022 - 02.2024

AI-Powered Ticket Prioritization

  • Led development of SageMaker NLP model analyzing enterprise email streams (50K+ emails/month) to auto-classify support tickets:
    Achieved 92% precision/88% recall by fine-tuning BERT-based model
    Reduced manual triage time by 65%, cutting ticket resolution SLA from 24h → 8.5h
    Implemented active learning pipeline that improved model accuracy by 3% monthly via human-in-the-loop feedback

Centralized Logging & Observability

  • Designed HyperLog-based analytics using Kafka + JOLT transformations:
    Unified 12+ product logs into real-time JSON streams (5TB/day processed)
    Enabled 360° customer journey tracking – reduced RCA time by 40% for cross-product issues.
  • Security posture management of the product - System abuse & Ingestion

Sr Software Engineer (Java Full Stack)

ServiceNow
12.2018 - 11.2022

Increased productivity by containerizing services via Docker, Improving dev environment setup with automation.

Password Reset Management & Omnichannel Bot

  • Architected AI-driven password reset system handling 2M+ monthly requests across 5 channels (SMS/email/IVR/bot/portal):
    Reduced helpdesk calls by 62% via Amazon Connect.

Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization (AWS/Azure/GCP)

  • Led Cloud Insights ITAM platform development:
    Right-sizing recommendations (similar to AWS Cost Explorer)
    Automated tag governance that improved cost allocation accuracy by 83%
    Built anomaly detection that flagged $350K+ in idle resources monthly

Engineering Excellence

  • Established secure coding standards adopted by 12+ teams:
    Cut critical vulnerabilities by 65% via automated SAST/DAST pipelines
  • Designed time-series metric DB:
    Handled 4TB/day with using aggregation pipelines

Software Engineer (Java JEE)

Intel Security
10.2014 - 11.2018
  • Company Overview: / McAfee
  • Network Security Platform is a IDS / IPS system in physical and cloud environment.
  • NSP - Implemented Zero Day Attacks management with STIX and TAXII
  • NSP - Implemented SNORT to Native-Format, SonarQube Quality gate
  • NSP - Developed AWS Multi account management for Virtual Solution.
  • NSP - Worked on AWS / Azure readiness for Test Deployment on Cloud.
  • NSP - Developing, Debugging mini-tools & Env with Docker (Productivity).
  • NSP - Handled Customer Escalations (NASA, Aramco, VISA).
  • NSP - Designed & Implemented Licensing Telemetry to GTI with Splunk.
  • Alert Management with messaging brokers like and Kafka & JMS
  • / McAfee

Education

MSIT - MASTERS - Network Security, Information Security

IIIT-HYDERABAD
01.2012

Skills

Java

Certification

Java Certified Professional

Accomplishments

  • Hackathon winner for ideation+POC : iWatch (2020) - ServiceNow
  • Best Performance Cash Award - 2017 - McAfee
  • #1 Amazon Code Ninja challenge 2014 - Amazon
  • COE Pillar Award 2013 - JDA
  • Open Hardware Design Contest - 2008 - IIT-Kharagpur

Timeline

Lead Software Developer

Discovery Analytics
04.2024 - Current

Lead Software Developer (Java & AWS)

Freshworks
11.2022 - 02.2024

Sr Software Engineer (Java Full Stack)

ServiceNow
12.2018 - 11.2022

Software Engineer (Java JEE)

Intel Security
10.2014 - 11.2018

MSIT - MASTERS - Network Security, Information Security

IIIT-HYDERABAD
Venkat Sravan PentakotaLead Software Engineer