Venumadhav Nagavelli
Parker
Summary
Experienced Staff Software Engineer, skilled at leading cross-functional teams. Remarkable relationship-building, decision-making, and communication skills. Drives software process improvements that enable progressively increased team efficiency.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Marqeta
Oakland
10.2022 - Current
- As an acting Lead, I led an engineering team of four to develop a U.S.-based ACH platform using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Served as Scrum Master, leading all agile ceremonies and optimizing sprint planning processes using Jira.
- Refined public APIs to be more data-rich, enabling customers to make more informed decisions.
- Developed banking solutions for Automated Clearing House (ACH) and Faster Payments Service (FPS) rails.
- Leveraged AI to automate code skeleton generation, improving developer productivity.
- Built an internal AI chatbot that answers business-related questions by aggregating data from multiple internal systems.
- Implemented a domain-driven ledger service that centralized balance calculations and transaction history, reducing duplicate logic across services, and improving financial data consistency.
- Built a series of Snowflake views to abstract complex underlying tables, improving the speed and ease of data retrieval for reporting and analytics.
- Built a high-throughput payment velocity control service in Java/Spring Boot to evaluate approximately 100,000 transactions per day in real time, with configurable limits per customer, merchant, and program.
Lead Software Engineer
Nordstrom
Denver
02.2021 - 10.2022
- Led a cross-functional team of UI and backend engineers, using collaboration and pair programming to deliver and host a customer-facing credit card application.
- Applied Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with supple design patterns to model complex business domains and keep services simple, maintainable, and extensible.
- Designed and implemented choreographed, event-driven microservice architectures using event sourcing and asynchronous publish–subscribe messaging on Apache Kafka, improving decoupling and scalability.
- Implemented a microservice architecture to increase team agility and reduce time-to-market, enabling independent deployment and ownership of services.
- Built and operated containerized services in .NET Core, Java Spring Boot, and serverless architectures, deployed via Docker on Kubernetes (Nordstrom-hosted clusters), and AWS EKS.
- Led the migration of key .NET Core applications to Java Spring Boot, standardizing the technology stack, and simplifying long-term maintenance and support.
- Designed highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems in AWS, provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
- Integrated services with HashiCorp Vault for secure storage of secrets and artifacts, and designed PCI DSS–compliant components for handling sensitive cardholder data.
- Integrated UIs via the Fastly CDN, and implemented network routing and experimentation using Optimizely, improving performance and user experience.
- Developed the NewAccounts application, orchestrating downstream services via Kafka-based messaging workflows.
- Mentored engineers and served as an engineering resource across multiple teams, conducting thorough code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to best practices.
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into clear technical specifications for software development.
Senior Engineer
Nordstrom
Denver
10.2018 - 01.2021
- Developed a reusable service template that was used to deploy 12 or more applications for new credit application workflows.
- Built containerized RESTful services using Docker and Kubernetes, and developed a high-throughput, load-balanced API layer to support large transaction volumes.
- Practiced behavior-driven development (BDD) with automated SpecFlow acceptance tests, and created load test scripts using the serverless-artillery framework to validate performance and resiliency.
- Implemented observability and incident management using Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, and PagerDuty, including building business reporting dashboards and operational views.
- Developed PoC and production applications using JavaScript, ReactJS, and Node.js, including a Node.js service that consumed Kafka messages to generate PDF documents.
- Developed and maintained the Nordstrom Credit and Customer Data Warehouse environment, collaborating with Customer and Credit Data Warehouse teams on ETL processing and data integration.
- Modernized legacy mainframe processing, integrating OLTP and OLAP databases, and migrating a loyalty credit points awarding application from the mainframe to Oracle.
- Built reporting tools and batch automation, including a Ruby Dashing–based dashboard and Control-M schedules for daily batch jobs.
- Developed a credit application in .NET C# as part of the credit card issuing platform.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Technologies
Denver
04.2015 - 09.2018
- Developed and maintained the Nordstrom Credit and Customer Data Warehouse environment, working closely with Customer and Credit data teams on ETL processing and data integration.
- Modernized legacy mainframe processing by developing replacement application code and integrating OLTP and OLAP databases to support both transactional and analytical workloads.
- Migrated the loyalty credit points-awarding application from a mainframe environment to Oracle, improving maintainability and performance.
- Built reporting tools using the Ruby-based Dashing dashboard framework to surface operational and business metrics.
- Used the Control-M scheduling tool to configure, schedule, and monitor daily batch jobs.
- Developed a credit application in .NET C# as part of the credit card issuing platform. Worked for Customer and Credit Data Warehouse teams (ETL processing).
- Develop and maintain the Nordstrom Credit and Customer Data Warehouse environment.
- Develop code to substitute mainframe processing.
- Integrate OLTP and OLAP databases.
- Migrate loyalty credit points awarding application from mainframe to Oracle.
- Develop a reporting tool using the Ruby Dashing dashboard framework.
- Work on the Control-M tool for scheduling and monitoring daily batch jobs.
- Develop a credit application in .NET C#.
- Write and execute test cases for the application.
- Develop a CI/CD pipeline using Git, TeamCity, and Octopus.
- Involved in the design, development, and testing of web forms and web services.
- Develop, design, implement, and unit-test applications using the Microsoft .NET platform.
- Create stored procedures in T-SQL to retrieve data from SQL Server 2008.
- Prepare technical design documents, perform code reviews, debugging, and testing.
- Develop an ETL system for the Customer Knowledge Warehouse and the Credit Data Warehouse.
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
Trivandrum
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Wrote and executed test cases for web applications.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines using Git, TeamCity, and Octopus Deploy.
- Participated in the design, development, and testing of Web Forms and web services.
- Designed, implemented, and unit tested applications using the Microsoft .NET platform.
- Created T-SQL stored procedures to retrieve and manipulate data in SQL Server 2008.
- Prepared technical design documents and performed code reviews, debugging, and testing.
Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
Trivandrum
01.2012 - 02.2013
- Develop ETL system for Customer Knowledge Warehouse and Credit Data Warehouse
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
HYDERABADSkills
- Java Spring Boot
- NET C#
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby on Rails
- ReactJS
- Kafka
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ETL
- Oracle
- MySQL
- DynamoDB
- AWS
- GCP
- CDN Fastly
- Optimizely Edge Routing
- Kong
- Nginx
- Terraform
- Vault
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitHub
- Snowflake
Certification
- AWS Developer Certification
- Oracle Certified PL/SQL developer
Personal Information
Title: Staff Software Engineer
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Marqeta
10.2022 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Nordstrom
02.2021 - 10.2022
Senior Engineer
Nordstrom
10.2018 - 01.2021
Technology Analyst
Infosys Technologies
04.2015 - 09.2018
Senior Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
03.2013 - 03.2015
Systems Engineer
Infosys Technologies
01.2012 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University