Vishnu Sunkari

Thousand Oaks · California 91320 · vishnusunkari@yahoo.com

Innovative and results-driven Cloud Engineering and DevOps Leader with over a decade of experience in architecting, implementing, and managing large-scale cloud infrastructures and micro-service architecture. Proven track record in cost optimization, compliance, and leading cross-functional, globally distributed teams. Adept at driving cloud strategy and governance, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and spearheading cloud transformations.

Leadership

Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Expertise in managing globally distributed teams and driving collaboration across multiple departments to achieve organizational goals.

Cloud Engineering Management: Extensive experience in highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud architecture, governance, disaster-recovery and cost optimization

Project Management & Agile: Proficient in agile methodologies, with a strong background in project management, including resource allocation, roadmap creation, and milestone tracking.

Experience

Cloud Infrastructure and Applications Management

Swift Navigation, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead the global cloud strategy and infrastructure for Swift Navigation’s core products, ensuring highly available, fault-tolerant services across the US, Europe, China, Asia-Pacific, and Australia.

Directed the implementation of cloud governance policies, achieving compliance with ISO27001 and ISO26262 standards, and ensuring data security for GNSS data.

Spearheaded cloud cost optimization initiatives, resulting in a ~30% reduction in costs through strategic resource allocation and usage optimization.

Increased service uptime by 15%, directly enhancing customer satisfaction and retention, contributing to a 10% growth in annual revenue.

Built, managed and responsible for 3 engineering teams of total size 20 engineers from Principal to Junior level Engineers across the globe responsible for designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components.

Sept 2022 - Present

Cloud Engineering Management

Nations Info Corp, Westlake Village, CA

Re-engineered Nations Info Corp's billing platform using Kafka Cluster with multiple topics and concurrency, which resulted in a 20% increase in revenue by optimizing transaction processing and improving billing accuracy.

Architected and deployed a micro-service based AWS infrastructure, covering the entire stack from VPC and subnets to ECS clusters and RDS databases.

Coached and mentored engineers across multiple teams through regular one-on-one sessions, providing guidance at professional as well as personal level. Led the quarterly and yearly performance reviews, setting growth goals and creating personalized development plans to foster talent and ensure alignment with company objectives.

Drove the migration from a monolithic architecture to a micro-service approach, improving scalability and performance.

Enabled a 25% faster release cycle, significantly boosting productivity and reducing time-to-market for new features.

Established engineering roadmaps and resource allocation strategies to ensure timely project delivery.

Designed and implemented a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline using Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS Code services, enhancing deployment efficiency and consistency.

Dec 2020 - Sept 2022

Engineering Lead, Cloud

USA Today Inc, Woodland Hills, CA

Led the design and implementation of scalable micro-services on AWS ECS, enhancing the resilience and scalability of key systems.

Managed multiple engineering teams, ensuring seamless integration and performance of advertising platforms on Facebook, Google, and Simplifi.

Developed and maintained fault-tolerant systems with built-in disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring business continuity.

Optimized cloud resource usage, leading to a 20% reduction in operating costs while maintaining system performance.

May 2018 - Dec 2020

Systems Architect

Trimble Inc, Playa Vista, CA

Provided technical leadership in the design and development of an e-commerce platform, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable cloud architecture across global regions.

Mentored cross-functional teams, fostering skill development and ensuring high-quality code delivery.

Led the development of region-based database architectures, facilitating efficient data access and aggregation through Elasticsearch.

May 2016 - May 2018

Lead Software Engineer

Thryv/DexMedia Inc, Santa Monica, CA

Designed and implemented enterprise APIs and systems for the fulfillment of advertising products, leveraging the Spring Framework and REST-based services.

Developed and maintained a custom-built account management system, enabling efficient management of marketing needs for advertisers.

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

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford LEAD Business Program

2024 - 2025

Texas State University

Master of Science

Computer Science

2003 - 2005

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

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