Visalakshi Garimella
Hyderabad,Telangana
Summary
Senior Software Professional with 22 years of experience in Engineering Management, Program Management, and Software Development. Proven track record of leading diverse, multi-cultural teams to deliver distributed enterprise applications in Banking, Telecom, and Security domains. Expertise in Cloud-Native Architecture (GCP), Data Engineering, and AI/ML Evaluation Frameworks. Adept at establishing strong rapport with key stakeholders and bridging the gap between technical execution and business strategy to drive operational excellence.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager
Turing India Pvt Ltd
India
05.2025 - Current
- Accelerated evaluation cycle times by 75% through the development of custom internal evaluation tools, enabling the rapid delivery of multiple high-impact improvement recommendations to clients.
- Developed a model-agnostic configuration layer, enabling seamless integration of multiple agents without code overrides.
- Developed a custom 'rag-sync' service to maintain real-time synchronisationbetween vector databases and source knowledge, reducing retrieval latency and ensuring agent accuracy.
- Developed end-to-end data pipelines and a high-performance "Export" engine, transforming raw agent logs into actionable analytics and comprehensive evaluation reports.
- Established a standardized unit and integration testing framework across the microservice ecosystem, achieving [X]% code coverage and reducing production regressions.
Project Manager
Turing India Pvt Ltd
India
05.2024 - 05.2025
- Coordinated end-to-end project delivery, including resource planning, milestone tracking, billing, compliance, and operational oversight.
- Automated project metrics reporting for tool-based projects to enable daily target tracking and performance analysis.
- Led process-optimization initiatives across vendor and performance management, significantly enhancing service-level agreements (SLAs) and operational transparency.
- Led the development of an automated tool, centralizing talent onboarding/offboarding and eliminating manual overhead to drive peak operational efficiency.
Data Engineering Manager
Turing
India
12.2021 - 05.2024
- Data Pipelines & Orchestration: Architected and managed scalable ETL pipelines for product data using Apache Airflow and BigQuery, ensuring reliable data availability for analytics and modeling.
- Data Quality Improvement: Implemented automated sanity checks and validation frameworks that reduced data errors by 30-40%, significantly enhancing the reliability of product insights.
- Model Evaluation & Analytics: Managed human feedback loops and tool development for model evaluation, delivering critical product analytics and reports to drive decision-making.
Manager
IBM India Pvt Ltd
India
07.2011 - 05.2016
- Managed application development, support, and testing teams within Systems Technology Group.
- Led development of Serviceability products FMT, ESA coding, MDC and QA automation frameworks.
- Delivered serviceability solutions for Power, KVM, HMC systems and electronic call home services.
- Managed BOS Support for AIX 6.1/7.1 and Information Development for AIX & POWER HW projects.
Engineering Program Manager
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
India
06.2009 - 06.2011
- Led development of enterprise compliance and security reporting tool (CA Log Manager).
- Streamlined compliance reporting and Audit processes.
Development Manager
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
India
04.2007 - 06.2009
- Managed Security Information Management solution development (CA Audit/SSC).
- Built centralized security event data collection, filtering, and normalization system.
Technical Lead
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
India
12.2003 - 03.2007
- Designed and developed agent data models for enterprise Storage Information Management.
- Built Oracle, Sybase, and TSM agents supporting application and database storage management.
Senior Software Engineer
Virtusa India Pvt Ltd
India
02.2002 - 11.2003
- Reverse Engineering for Customer Acquisition System tool.
- Offshore and onsite development for EMC's integrated backup solution.
- Successfully ported EDM server from Solaris to RedHat Linux.
- Location: EMC Massachusetts, USA (onsite component).
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro India Pvt Ltd
India
03.2000 - 12.2001
- Graphical Adjacency Manager (GAM): Enhanced dual band operations support for BSS configuration management.
- Planning Data Transfer: Developed BSS Managed Object planning application for NMS database operations.
- LSA Module: Built Localized Service Area planning and provisioning system for Nokia Service Gateway.
- Location: Nokia Tampere, Finland (international assignment).
Software Engineer
CMC India Ltd
India
04.1998 - 02.2000
- Developed control system for End of Business Date operations monitoring and job sequencing.
- Contributed to development of transaction reposting system for EOD process management.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
India01.2021
M.Tech - Computer Science
JNTU
Kakinada01.1998
B.Tech - Electronics & Communications Engineering
JNT University
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh05.1994
Skills
- Programming languages: Python, C/C, Java, SQL, PL/SQL
- Web & Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML/CSS, Vite
- Frameworks & Libraries: FastAPI, Django, Flask, LangChain, LangGraph, LiteLLM
- Cloud & DevOps: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Firestore, BigQuery), Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Apache Airflow
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Firestore, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL
- Tools & Others: Git, GitHub Actions, Unix/Linux Internals, Eclipse, Jira, Agile/Scrum
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Turing India Pvt Ltd
05.2025 - Current
Project Manager
Turing India Pvt Ltd
05.2024 - 05.2025
Data Engineering Manager
Turing
12.2021 - 05.2024
Manager
IBM India Pvt Ltd
07.2011 - 05.2016
Engineering Program Manager
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 06.2011
Development Manager
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
04.2007 - 06.2009
Technical Lead
CA Technologies India Pvt Ltd
12.2003 - 03.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Virtusa India Pvt Ltd
02.2002 - 11.2003
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro India Pvt Ltd
03.2000 - 12.2001
Software Engineer
CMC India Ltd
04.1998 - 02.2000
M.Tech - Computer Science
JNTU
Post Graduate Diploma - Data Science
IIIT Bangalore
B.Tech - Electronics & Communications Engineering
JNT University
Core Competencies
- Engineering Leadership: Building and mentoring high-performing teams, performance management, and talent development.
- Program Management: Agile/Waterfall delivery, resource planning, cost control, and stakeholder management.
- Technical Architecture: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), Microservices (FastAPI), and Full-stack development.
- Data & AI Strategy: Data pipeline orchestration (Airflow, BigQuery), LLM evaluation methodology, and data quality improvement.
- Process Improvement: Workflow automation, Agile & Devops adoption
International Work Experience
- Worked at client location in Nokia, (Tampere, Finland).
- Worked at client location - EMC, Milford (Boston, USA).
- Worked at Rochester location (IBM, USA).