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BHANU PRAKASH KOVURI

Director Of Engineering
San Jose,CA

Summary

Accomplished engineering leader with a proven track record in architecting robust, scalable, and resilient data platforms. Consistently delivers high-impact solutions that align with strategic objectives, demonstrating exceptional ability in data infrastructure, product strategy, software architecture, and innovation

  • Redesigned and scaled legacy data platform from the ground up to provide Petabyte scale Data Ingestion, Processing & analytics.
  • Provide technical leadership to build and support Query & Analytics Microservices, Data stores, and Infrastructure for data-intensive observability platform
  • Partner with Architects, Engineers, DevOps, Security, Performance, Quality, Product, Project, Business, Customer Experience, and other Stakeholders to execute on a compelling vision and roadmap
  • Developed a culture to consistently deliver several key products. Meticulously plan, budget, and innovate in dynamic environments

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Engineering

Splunk Observability
San Jose, CA
09.2024 - Current

Delight customers by transforming observability data into actionable insights. Serve as the Execution Owner for a unified platform consisting of entity, query, analytics, and alerting, which enables cross-domain correlation of MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces) data for a seamless product experience and effective AI troubleshooting journeys.

  • Evolve the monitoring platform to establish a structured model for entities, relationships, and metadata to provide a unified data foundation at Petabyte scale.
  • Evolve Query & Analytics to an entity-aware platform to support cross-domain high cardinality queries and real-time analytics for large-scale observability workloads
  • Alerting, SLOs, and Events platform that enables proactive monitoring, anomaly detection, and real-time event-driven insights.

Director of Engineering

AppDynamics
08.2019 - 09.2024
  • Own a highly scalable Data platform that unifies data infrastructure and data products to handle @PetaByte scale Ingestion, Aggregation, Processing, Datastore, and Services to provide rich Interactive Analytics with sub-second latencies
  • Scaled legacy metrics platform (30X) to ingest hundreds of billions of metrics per day, Aggregate, Store(HBase), and query with a sub hundred millisecond latency
  • Responsible for the AppDynamics & Full Stack Observability(FSO) Data platform charter, vision, roadmap, strategy, hiring, alignment, and execution
  • Collaborate with Stakeholders to establish quarterly OKRs. Highly diligent to meet and exceed on department-wide OKRs

Senior Engineering Manager

AppDynamics
02.2019 - 08.2019

Principal Software Engineer

AppDynamics
08.2017 - 02.2019

Senior Engineer - Technical Lead

Elementum
03.2017 - 08.2017
  • Build analytical services using graph database(DataStax - Cassandra) and distributed query engines like presto

Tech Lead

Walmart Global eCommerce
05.2014 - 03.2017
  • Manage samsclub.com personalization platform
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Leads, and external engineering teams to deliver personalization features
  • Design and implement fault-tolerant data processing and near real-time streaming (Apache Storm) frameworks for product catalog and customer events (transactions, clickstream data)
  • Mentor engineers and data scientists to contribute features on whole site personalization
  • Integrated real-time product catalog with personalization platform using Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, and NoSQL data stores (Cassandra and Couchbase)
  • Used concurrency and reactive programming to achieve bulk write to Couchbase
  • Addressed key issues related to performance, multi-threading, fault tolerance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the system

Software Engineer

Integral Development Corporation
11.2012 - 05.2014
  • Owned foreign exchange trade monitoring application in low latency, highly scalable FX Grid
  • Delivered projects in trade workflow, message processing, persistence layers, and UI
  • As a full-stack engineer contributed to applications using Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, Toplink, Oracle, JMS, jQuery, JavaScript

Senior Member Technical Staff

Mentor Graphics
07.2010 - 11.2012
  • Designed and developed solutions for Capital project management & persistent systems
  • Proficiency in Test-driven development, SOLID principles, and their application
  • Built framework using the Hibernate ORM framework to validate every persistable object added in Capital Suite
  • Actively managed Code Review, Unit test plans, and integration testing for Capital Persistence frameworks

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle Corporation
07.2007 - 06.2010
  • Designed and Developed features on a distributed agent that collects telemetry data, analyzes health, and alerts status for a suite of Oracle products
  • Shown excellent ability to plan, support, organize and follow through quick fixes in several releases

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, India
01.2005 - 07.2007

Skills

Data Stores (Druid, HBase, Cassandra, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, PostgresSQL, Neo4J)

Data Processing(Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark, Streaming execution engines)

Query & Analytics (Streaming, Asynchronous)

Build Tools (K8s, Helm, CI/CD, GitLab)

Cloud Platform(AWS, GCP)

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Timeline

Director of Engineering

Splunk Observability
09.2024 - Current

Director of Engineering

AppDynamics
08.2019 - 09.2024

Senior Engineering Manager

AppDynamics
02.2019 - 08.2019

Principal Software Engineer

AppDynamics
08.2017 - 02.2019

Senior Engineer - Technical Lead

Elementum
03.2017 - 08.2017

Tech Lead

Walmart Global eCommerce
05.2014 - 03.2017

Software Engineer

Integral Development Corporation
11.2012 - 05.2014

Senior Member Technical Staff

Mentor Graphics
07.2010 - 11.2012

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle Corporation
07.2007 - 06.2010

Master of Science - Computer Science Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras
01.2005 - 07.2007
BHANU PRAKASH KOVURIDirector Of Engineering