Vishnu Sunkari

Thousand Oaks · California 91320 · vishnusunkari@yahoo.com

Accomplished Technology Leader in building Engineering teams to their full potential, laying roadmaps for business goals, building highly-available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed enterprise systems on Cloud platforms with proven track record of successful deliverables within budget.


Experience

Cloud Engineering Management

Swift Navigation, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Bring Swift’s Corrections service across the globe including China to end-users by owning end-to-end cloud application software, cloud infrastructure and supporting functionality

Reporting to CTO, build and lead engineering teams across globe in designing, implementing, and managing Cloud strategy, Cloud platforms, CI/CD, and other infrastructure components to run Swift Navigation's core products as a highly available global safety-of-life service.

Responsible for Swift Navigation's Global Cloud Infrastructure across US, Europe, China, Asia Pacific and Australia.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams in implementing performant global GNSS corrections with centimeter level accuracy, Skylark™ precise positioning service from the cloud, enabling a future of autonomous vehicles to navigate and understand the world.

Successful navigation of Chinese government regulations by establishing a strategic partnership, hosting GNSS corrections service, collaborating with Chinese partner teams, and implementing robust IP protection through KMS encryption for critical components, ensuring seamless service delivery in compliance with local policies.

Implemented cloud governance policies to ensure compliance(ISO27001, ISO26262) with industry standards and data security regulations specific to GNSS data.

Optimization of Cloud Cost with Cloud FinOps – savings plans, discount programs, right balance of high-availability and performance of services, building tools for cost visibility and taking action based on ROI.

Sept 2022 - Present

Head of Cloud Infrastructure

Nations Info Corp, Westlake Village, CA

Build Engineering teams from scratch, Layout business roadmaps, design and architect Microservice architecture for Nations Info Corp next-gen applications.

Migration of existing monolith to the newly designed microservice architecture defining milestones.

Lead the development of entire AWS Infrastructure for microservices from Network layer to Application layer including VPC, Route tables,Subnets- Private/Public, IAM Roles, Security Groups, AWS ECS Cluster, ECS Service Discovery, Docker Containerization, ECR, Kafka MKS, RDS and DynamoDB instances, ALB, Autoscaling, S3, Cloudfront etc.

Re-engineered Nations Info Corp's billing platform using microservices leveraging Kafka Clusters with multiple topics and concurrency enabled.

Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using bitbucket pipelines as well as AWS Code commit, Code build, Code deploy.

Lead the team in every step of migration of monolith to microservices.

Educating the team about containerization, springboot, java best practices as well as managing the milestones and reaching the timelines.

Lead Nations Info Corp's weekly releases, daily stand-ups, planning & grooming meetings and following Agile best practices.

Dec 2020 - Sept 2022

Lead Engineer, Cloud

USA Today Inc, Woodland Hills, CA

Built Facebook Auto Feed Workflow for clieents: VAuto and Homenet and scaled the system by moving to microservice architecture on AWS ECS with persistent volumes and S3 backups using IaC.

Lead, Design and Develop USAToday’s Ad Campaigns on Facebook, Google and Simplifi utilizing their APIs and creating active running campaigns by designing workflow using Spring Framework’s (boot, integration, data, batch) stack.

Implementation of fault-tolerant, resilient systems with disaster recovery built into.

Design of the API and Integration between systems.

Leading the team in an Agile work environment: Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Grooming-Planning-Retros.

May 2018 - Dec 2020

Systems Architect

Trimble Inc, Playa Vista, CA

Lead, Design and develope e-commerce application via REST based services for Trimble to upsell and sell their subscription-based platform services to clients on an AWS server environment.

Design and development on AWS cloud region-based DB architecture with regions spread across China, Europe and US. Aggregated data accessed via Elasticsearch.

End to End Performance Optimization.

Performance Tuning of JVM Heap and WildFly Application Server.

Design, develop and maintain Trimble Connect REST Services served across internal and external customers. Also integrated into Dropbox like document storage application for 3D/2D models.

Demonstrated ability to setup new development standards and revolutionizing the team to follow those processes. Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individual team members to maximize productivity.

Mentoring cross-functional teams including Support Teams and perform Code Reviews.

Provided technical leadership to offshore/onsite team including QA resources and provide team guidance both personal and intellectual for team members to direct the team to achieve its overall goals.

May 2016 - May 2018

Lead Software Engineer

Thryv/DexMedia Inc, Santa Monica, CA

Designed and implemented enterprise processes for the fulfillment of advertising products : Call Tracking, CustomVideo, Social Media Reputation, Website using Spring stack: Core, MVC, Batch, Security, LDAP and IBatis, REST based services, JMS Queues.

Design, develop and maintain Account Management System, a custom built system of DexMedia enabling advertisers and internal users to manage their business’s marketing needs and online advertising via DexKnows.com.

Oversee all aspects of technical activities for AMS-Platform team at DexMedia.

October 2011 - May 2016

Software Programmer

Franklin University, Columbus, OH

Designed and Developed Enterprise Web Application for Franklin University using Spring Stack (Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring LDAP), Hibernate, MySQL5 and LDAP integration.

Lead Developer responsible for the maintenance and development of Franklin University’s Enterprise Web Systems including Vignette V7.

September 2008 - September 2011

Programmer Analyst II

Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Prime developer of the Texas State University’s Enterprise web system in Magnolia and Vignette CMS.

December 2005 - August 2008

Education

Texas State University

Master of Science

Computer Science

August 2003 - December 2005

Kakatiya University

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science

August 1999 - May 2003

Skills

LEADERSHIP
  • Cross-Functional Globally Distributed Team Management
  • Cloud FinOps/Architecture/Strategy/Infrastructure Management
  • Highly-available, Fault-tolerant, Scalable, Distributed Architecture
  • Microservice Architecture, API Design and Enterprise Integration
  • Security and Compliance, Vendor Management
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Technologies
  • Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana
  • AWS: VPC, Subnets, Route53, ECS, ECS Service Discovery, Auto-scaling, ALB, Docker ECR, Kafka MKS, S3, EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Beanstalk, SQS, CloudHSM, AWS Private CA, ACM, KMS
  • Java, Python, Groovy, Spring Framework: SpringBoot, Core, Data, Integration, MVC, Batch
  • REST, GRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Microservices, JMS
  • Elastic Search, EHCache
  • MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • MySQL, SQLServer
  • CI/CD: Git, Bitbucket pipelines, Puppet, Jenkins, Bamboo
  • Spock, Mockito, Junit, JMeter
  • Gradle, Maven
  • Splunk, Sumologic, New Relic
  • Scrum Agile, SAFE, Kanban, Jira/Rally

Interests

I enjoy spending time with my family, volunteering for educational institutions, blogging about technology and lots of reading.

In addition, I have a keen interest in sports like Cricket, Basketball, Tennis not just watching but playing whenever I get a chance. When it comes to movies, I like sci-fi and philosophical movies.


Certifications & Awards

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • SpringSource Certifed Enterprise Integration Spring Specialist
  • 10Gen MongoDB for Java Developers
  • Oracle Certified Web Component Developer, JEE5
  • Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform, SE6
  • Project Management Professional, PMP
  • DexMedia 2015 Excellence Award
  • Texas State University, 2008 Information Technology Honors Award