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Vishwanath Muthyam Venkata

Canton

Summary

Software Engineering Leader with 19 years of experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems. Drives measurable business outcomes through DORA metrics, modernization, and cloud migration initiatives, while fostering high-performing teams. Passionate about delivering faster, safer, and happier engineering through scalability, operational excellence, and outcome-driven leadership.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineering Manager II

Credit Acceptance Corporation
03.2022 - Current
  • Oversaw modernization of legacy Spring Boot/Java applications to Kubernetes (AWS and on-prem Rancher), including Java 21 and Spring Boot 3.x upgrades, containerization, and migration from Oracle to Postgres, enabling cost savings and scalability.
  • Spearheaded custom JWT token service and Spring Cloud Gateway BFF layer for guest user payments, ensuring secure, non-blocking, async data aggregation, improving UX and payment collections by 10%.
  • Introduced trunk-based development with LaunchDarkly, enabling feature flagging, A/B testing, faster releases, and 20% improved feature turnaround.
  • Championed shift-left testing initiatives, implementing unit, integration, and contract tests earlier in the DevOps cycle, realizing 30% improvement in change failure rate.
  • Partnered with SRE to improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response, creating playbooks and runbooks to ensure faster, reliable incident resolution and better on-call work-life balance.
  • Led cloud migration and modernization initiatives, collaborating with DevOps, Cloud, Product, and Architecture teams to drive enterprise-scale transformation.
  • Managed vendor evaluations and contracts, including LaunchDarkly feature flagging platform, coordinating POs, usage evaluation, and renewal discussions with stakeholders.
  • Partnered with multiple teams to define standard approaches for package and configuration management via HELM and Kustomize PoCs, ensuring scalable, maintainable solutions.
  • Lead three Scrum teams, totaling 15 onshore engineers, establishing a leader-of-leaders structure.
  • Mentored and promoted internal talent into SEM I roles, shaping a high-performing leadership pipeline.
  • Directed people growth, career development, and technical coaching, enabling senior engineers to expand leadership capabilities.
  • Oversaw technical recruitment, including screening and interviews, contributing to successful hires and team expansion.
  • Focused engineering efforts on scalability, measurable KPIs, and business outcomes, ensuring faster, safer delivery of features while improving operational reliability.
  • Aligned modernization and technical initiatives with measurable DORA metrics, enabling engineering teams to deliver higher quality features more frequently.

Software Engineering Manager I

Credit Acceptance Corporation
01.2018 - 03.2022
  • Designed and implemented enterprise-wide event-driven architecture, delivering Java/Spring Boot platform services that enabled legacy systems to interact seamlessly through standardized, scalable APIs and JMS events.
  • Modernized legacy systems by decoupling critical modules, including the Repo Hub application, transforming the repossession module’s vendor integration from file-transfer to REST API spec, enabling near real-time updates and improved consumer satisfaction.
  • Built services to integrate with external vendors, including Melissa Data (address standardization) and GiAct/Finicity (bank verification), abstracting vendor-specific details and providing a uniform internal spec for internal clients.
  • Transformed monolithic applications into distributed, cloud-ready services, integrating automated testing, monitoring, and alerting to improve DORA metrics and accelerate time-to-market.
  • Hands-on technical leader, contributing to development, performing code reviews, and mentoring senior engineers to grow into leadership roles.
  • Enabled business agility by decoupling critical modules from legacy dependencies, reducing deployment risk, and empowering teams to release features faster.
  • Enhanced resilience and reliability, embedding observability and proactive incident response practices to minimize downtime and ensure consistent delivery of business outcomes.

Application Developer, Senior

Credit Acceptance Corporation
10.2014 - 12.2017
  • Designed multi-threaded modules for LSS 2.0 and GPS SID applications, ensuring near real-time transaction processing and improved UX.
  • Mentored developers, conducted code reviews, and supported production operations.

Applications Developer

United Stationers Supply Company
10.2008 - 10.2014
  • Developed Empower Central, HP Big Deals, eCatalog, and Siebel Call Center applications using Spring, JPA, web services, and JavaScript frameworks.
  • Implemented multi-threaded services, automated testing, and CI/CD integration.

Systems Engineer

Polaris Software Lab Ltd
08.2005 - 08.2007
  • Configured and customized Siebel applications, designed data models, performed data migrations, and implemented Actuate reports.

Education

Masters - Management Information Systems

University At Buffalo, State University of New York
Buffalo, NY
05-2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University
India
05-2005

Skills

  • Java and Spring Boot
  • SQL and PL/SQL
  • JUnit and Test automation
  • Git and Jenkins
  • Maven and Artifactory
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • AWS and Cloud migration
  • API design and Microservices architecture
  • DevOps practices and Technical leadership
  • Problem solving and Strategic planning

Websites

Certification

  • Annual Pride Award, Credit Acceptance Corp, 2015, 2019, 2021
  • Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 5 Web Component Developer
  • Sun Certified Programmer for Java SE 6
  • CEO Award of Excellence, United Stationers, 2012
  • Star of Business Solutions Center 1, Polaris Software Lab, 2007

Personal Information

Work Permit: Permanent Resident, Green Card

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager II

Credit Acceptance Corporation
03.2022 - Current

Software Engineering Manager I

Credit Acceptance Corporation
01.2018 - 03.2022

Application Developer, Senior

Credit Acceptance Corporation
10.2014 - 12.2017

Applications Developer

United Stationers Supply Company
10.2008 - 10.2014

Systems Engineer

Polaris Software Lab Ltd
08.2005 - 08.2007

Masters - Management Information Systems

University At Buffalo, State University of New York

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Anna University

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