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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

React

Spring Boot

MicroServices

Docker

Spring Security

Distributed Systems

JOLT

MySQL

AWS

Network Security

Virtual Agent

Java Script

Secure Coding

SNORT

Lambda

ServiceNow

System Design & Architecture

redis

JQuery

Python

Wireshark

HLD & LLD

J2EE

Next-Gen Firewall

Agile

Scrum

Unix

Linux

GCP

AWS

Aurora

LLD

HLD

Distributed Tracing

NoSQL

MangoDB

Apache

FreeMarker

REST

Kafka

Zipkin

Design Patterns

Micro Services Patterns

Machine Learning

API

Software Architecture

Terraform

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