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GNANI PRASANTH DADI

Senior Software Engineer
Milpitas,CA

Summary

Accomplished Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in developing scalable backend services and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and GCP. Expertise in designing Java and Python services, REST APIs, and data pipelines, while enhancing CI/CD processes and platform reliability. Skilled in bridging application and platform engineering to accelerate software delivery and improve developer productivity.

Overview

2
2
Languages
13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Build Engineering

Netskope
Santa Clara, CA
07.2021 - Current
  • Supported ~500 engineers across ~200 repositories, processing ~1,000+ CI builds per week — owning the full platform lifecycle from build and test to release and deployment across 50+ microservices.
  • Developed and enhanced Internal Developer Platform capabilities enabling hundreds of engineers to self-service build, test, release, deploy, and onboard services across 50+ microservices through standardized workflows and automated pipelines.
  • Designed and developed internal backend services and automation tooling in Java and Python — including automated versioning tool for semantic release management and platform services supporting dependency management, release orchestration, and engineering workflows adopted org-wide.
  • Drove technical design efforts for CI/CD modernization, build infrastructure scalability, and software supply chain security initiatives across the engineering org.
  • Led org-wide migration to Bazel, achieving hermetic builds and ~40% faster build times across development and production environments.
  • Built and operated self-hosted GitHub Actions runner infrastructure on AWS — auto-scaling EC2 fleets, IAM role management, and throughput optimization supporting thousands of CI jobs per week at ~25% lower compute cost.
  • Integrated SAST tooling into every PR pipeline across 100+ repositories, turning vulnerability scanning from a late-stage manual process into an automatic blocking gate.
  • Managed enterprise JFrog Artifactory supporting hundreds of developers across ~200 repositories — repo governance, access controls, cleanup policies, and REST API integrations at scale.
  • Designed Spinnaker Canary delivery pipelines across AWS and GCP; automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, reducing MTTR across production incidents.
  • Implemented Grafana and Prometheus monitoring and alerting pipelines improving system observability, incident detection, and response times across production workloads.
  • Collaborated with engineering leadership on platform modernization planning and roadmap execution, aligning infrastructure improvements with engineering productivity goals and delivery priorities.

Software Developer – Energy Data Systems

Energy Ventures Analysis, Inc.
Arlington, VA
07.2018 - 07.2021
  • Architected and maintained scalable Java and Python backend services for large-scale financial analytics platforms, processing 1M+ energy market records daily across distributed data pipelines with high reliability and data integrity.
  • Designed and built RESTful APIs using Spring Boot to expose system metrics and financial data to business stakeholders, enabling real-time reporting and analytics across the organization.
  • Designed relational schemas and high-throughput ETL workflows in PostgreSQL and MySQL, handling large-scale financial data ingestion, transformation, and validation at scale.
  • Managed production infrastructure and database operations including automated backups, disaster recovery procedures, and monitoring — ensuring 99%+ availability for mission-critical financial data systems.

Java Developer Intern

SAP Labs LLC
Palo Alto, CA
06.2017 - 08.2017
  • Developed Java EE REST APIs to automate cloud application provisioning in SAP Data Services; contributed to performance testing, cloud integration, and engineering code reviews.

Systems Engineer / Analyst

UST Global Inc.
Trivandrum, Kerala
12.2013 - 07.2016
  • Developed and maintained Java backend services and RESTful APIs, built CD pipelines with Jenkins & Maven and deployed containerized microservice's with Docker and Kubernetes to enhance system reliability and performance.
  • Designed and developed an internal employee seat allocation tool, enabling efficient workspace planning and seat management across the organization — reducing manual coordination overhead significantly.
  • Built reporting and analytics solutions using SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS, creating data integration pipelines, interactive reports, and multidimensional data models to enable informed decision-making in internal business operations.

Education

M.S. - Information Systems

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
01-2018

B.E. - Electronics and Communications

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
India
01-2013

Skills

Java programming

Programming languages

Web application development

Amazon web services

Continuous integration

API development experience

Build releases

Continuous integration and deployment

Database programming

DevOps best practices

Design reviews

Software development lifecycle

Advanced data structures

Expert database management

Accomplishments

  • Led migration of platform infrastructure from GCP to AWS, re-platforming critical CI/CD services supporting ~500 engineers with zero downtime, improved reliability, and ~25% reduction in infrastructure costs.
  • Designed and developed Versioner — an internal Java and Python service that auto-generates semantic version numbers based on commit count, adopted across all microservices to standardize the release versioning process.
  • Optimized enterprise JFrog Artifactory by architecting separate read and write instances, significantly improving artifact resolution performance, reliability, and access control separation at scale.
  • Implemented pre-commit Git hooks enforcing automated linting and formatting checks across engineering teams, reducing code review noise and improving developer experience and code consistency.
  • Organized and led company-wide hackathon engaging 1,000+ engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, cross-team collaboration, and internal developer community building.

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Build Engineering

Netskope
07.2021 - Current

Software Developer – Energy Data Systems

Energy Ventures Analysis, Inc.
07.2018 - 07.2021

Java Developer Intern

SAP Labs LLC
06.2017 - 08.2017

Systems Engineer / Analyst

UST Global Inc.
12.2013 - 07.2016

B.E. - Electronics and Communications

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

M.S. - Information Systems

George Mason University
GNANI PRASANTH DADISenior Software Engineer