Padmanabhan Venkitasubramanian

Cloudera

Dec 2020 - Sep 2025 • 4.8 yrs

Led two engineering teams totalling 9 engineers across India and Hungary (backend, React frontend, QA). Later focused on the delivery of a production AI-enabled support search platform through a dedicated team of 4 engineers supporting internal and customer-facing support workflows. • Launched a production-scale RAG-based support application on AWS with a lean team and $120K budget, powering a customer-facing support portal and reducing engineers' troubleshooting time from several hours to under 20 minutes. The portal reached approximately 1,000 DAU at launch. • Improved production readiness for a customer-facing AI support portal through HA architecture planning, operational readiness reviews, InfoSec compliance coordination, distributed tracing adoption, and portal-team collaboration. • Sustained delivery across 8 quarters by owning backlog prioritization, release planning, and execution for platform tooling initiatives with significant cross-team dependencies. • Led the India team through a private acquisition with zero attrition, maintaining delivery continuity across roadmap commitments and driving promotion decisions for 4 engineers into lead and principal-level roles.

Norton LifeLock

Apr 2016 - Dec 2019 • 3.7 yrs

Led 2 mobile teams (10 engineers) for the Norton Family app, translating product vision into execution and owning quarterly release outcomes with product and executive stakeholders. • Delivered 2+ features per release cycle with zero-day OS support compatibility, improving delivery predictability across teams and ensuring continuity across evolving device environments. • Modernized testing using WireMock and device-cloud validation, improving regression efficiency and reducing physical device dependency while expanding coverage across top 10 device manufacturers. • Reduced ANR and crash rates by approximately 10%, improving Play Store rating by 0.5 over 6 quarters through release and regression quality improvements. • Addressed production issues through structured RCA execution and follow-up tracking to prevent recurrence.

Identiv

Sep 2014 - Mar 2016 • 1.5 yrs

Built and led an early-stage engineering team of 4 engineers, hiring initial members and delivering a NIST-compliant, FIPS-ready enterprise access control platform. • Developed a multithreaded Java/Spring automation framework that reduced validation across 16 NIST Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards from over an hour to roughly 15 minutes, enabling daily execution instead of weekly cycles. • Improved delivery predictability across 3 quarters during early product stabilization through structured Agile planning and backlog governance. • Established engineering processes and delivery practices for an early-stage enterprise security platform, supporting predictable execution during initial product development.

ThoughtWorks

Nov 2010 - Sep 2014 • 3.8 yrs

Built and led an early-stage engineering team of 4 engineers, hiring initial members and delivering a NIST-compliant, FIPS-ready enterprise access control platform. • Developed a multithreaded Java/Spring automation framework that reduced validation across 16 NIST Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards from over an hour to roughly 15 minutes, enabling daily execution instead of weekly cycles. • Improved delivery predictability across 3 quarters during early product stabilization through structured Agile planning and backlog governance. • Established engineering processes and delivery practices for an early-stage enterprise security platform, supporting predictable execution during initial product development.

Trimble

Oct 2005 - Oct 2010 • 5 yrs

• Optimized performance of data reporting modules for a fleet-tracking platform, reducing query latency by 40% through database and query tuning.

Wipro

Jun 2005 - Sep 2005 • 0.3 yrs

Delivered backend features for a Linux-based broadband platform, maintaining a zero-defect record during the pre-release phase.

Hewlett-Packard

Jan 2003 - Jun 2005 • 2.4 yrs

Resolved critical defects and delivered enhancements for the Event Management module, improving the reliability of a core network management system.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jun 2002 - Dec 2002 • 0.5 yrs

Developed backend modules for an enterprise insurance portal, supporting stable performance under steady user traffic.