Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Vijaya Babu Pureti

Fayetteville,NC

Summary

Results-driven technology leader with 20+ years architecting and scaling enterprise, data, and cloud platforms across global delivery hubs (US, India, GCC). Combines strategic leadership with deep technical execution to deliver measurable outcomes through FinOps excellence, automation, reliability engineering, and performance engineering.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director - Software Engineering - Enterprise solutions, Cloud, Automation

NationsBenefits
01.2018 - 05.2025
  • Cloud & FinOps: Drove 40% annual cost savings (~$6M) by embedding a FinOps operating model—automated spend visibility, budget guardrails, workload scheduling, and multi-cloud optimization.
  • DevSecOps & Reliability: Elevated uptime to 99.9% and cut p95 latency by 25% via SRE runbooks, golden paths, and CI/CD standardization.
  • Application & Platform Engineering: Delivered API's required for e-commerce & CRM applications and managed deployments to Azure cloud.
  • Security & Compliance: Enforced shift-left security, IAM/RBAC, encryption, and HIPAA/SOC2-aligned controls across platforms.


Ecosystem
Azure | FinOps | .NET | SQL Server | PostgreSQL | Redis | CI/CD | SRE | Governance

Technical Manager - Software Engineering

Verizon
09.2005 - 06.2016

Architected and scaled the enterprise data lake and CI/CD ecosystem powering Verizon’s analytics organization. Led multi-team delivery to unify fragmented reporting into a governed, high-performance data platform.

Key Achievements

  • Designed end-to-end data flow architecture (ingestion → processing → warehousing) that became the enterprise lake standard for batch and near-real-time analytics.
  • Accelerated delivery velocity by automating builds, tests, and deployments through CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps best practices.
  • Enhanced platform reliability via SRE adoption—SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident runbooks.
  • Strengthened compliance and security posture with secure SDLC workflows and audit-ready release governance.
  • Led distributed teams across US and India, managing vendors and stakeholders to deliver enterprise SLAs.

Technical Stack
Hadoop/Spark, Kafka, Hive, DataStage, DB2, SQL Server, Jenkins/Git, Selenium/JMeter, MSBI, Java, Python, SQL

Focus Areas
Data architecture • DevOps & SRE • Governance & lineage • Disaster recovery • IT strategy to execution

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

JNTU College of Engineering, GC Holder

Skills

  • FinOps
  • DevSecOps
  • Automation
  • Performance Engineering
  • Software Project Delivery
  • People management
  • Problem-solving
  • Process improvements
  • Team collaboration

Certification

  • Machine Learning from Stanford
  • Cloud Computing: The Cloud and DevOps
  • Sun certified Java / Web / EJB developer
  • Oracle certified DBA

Timeline

Director - Software Engineering - Enterprise solutions, Cloud, Automation

NationsBenefits
01.2018 - 05.2025

Technical Manager - Software Engineering

Verizon
09.2005 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

JNTU College of Engineering, GC Holder
Vijaya Babu Pureti