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Pavan Rangavajhala

Fremont

Summary

Software professional with ~20 years of engineering experience with 12+ years as a technical lead and architect building systems to address cloud/cross-cloud level business initiatives in diverse domains such as infrastructure, SLO/real-time monitoring and customer implementation health advisor systems, big data deployment automation, Middle and Back-Office applications related to Hedge Fund Financial Services

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Architect, Availability Cloud

Salesforce
04.2022 - Current

* Evolved and maintained architectural integrity of products and long range planning under the Customer Implementation Health Life Cycle. The vision for our org, in short, is to enable high availability for Salesforce customers with a shared accountability model through the pillars: observability, advisory and communications, given that high availability is a shared responsibility between Salesforce and our customers. Our products include Proactive Monitoring currently offered for Signature customers (alerting and visibility), Trust and internal Customer Availability Reporting etc.

Principal Software Engineer - Availability Cloud

Salesforce
11.2019 - 04.2022
  • Architected and led team to implement Service Directory for all Salesforce services/features operating across multiple substrates(public cloud/first-party etc) and regions, driving standard availability analytics across Salesforce
  • Architected and led team to implement SLI/SLO framework for all Salesforce services/features operating across multiple substrates and regions, to enable standard health dashboards/alerts for realtime monitoring (Grafana) and availability analytics for ops reviews by executives and cloud leads

Principal Software Engineer - Einstein Analytics Cloud

Salesforce
02.2019 - 10.2019
  • Designed Einstein Analytics Batch service to execute long running ELT jobs (as long as 2 days) on k8s supporting immutable deployments
  • Co-led design of CI/CD and cluster monitoring for Einstein Analytics services to operate on public cloud
  • Led team to enable auto-restart stateful micro-services related to Einstein Analytics with automated host patching

Lead Software Engineer - Einstein Analytics Cloud

Salesforce
09.2015 - 01.2019

Analytics Service Portal

  • Identified tech stack, architected, designed and built Nodejs/SocketIO based Single Page Application, to monitor Einstein Analytics services and releases in realtime.
  • Built innovative framework to visualize realtime alerts/metrics/logs from disparate data sources such as Force.com streaming API, Splunk, Graphite, and Kafka.
  • Led winning team, as part of hackathon, to automate release validation

Analytics Service Ownership Projects

  • Led re-engineering internal alerting system for noise reduction, and on call efficiency
  • Led design and development of monitoring for NextGen architecture
  • Contributed to development of Service Availability Calculation Framework

Senior Software Engineer - Big Data Cloud

Salesforce
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Productized hackathon idea for a portal to monitor HBase deployment across ~150 clusters, appreciated by Architects in the Firm. Enhanced with features to monitor cluster health, app server connectivity, pre-release management, and CI status.
  • Enhanced automation tools for HBase deployment, monitoring and Kerberos HA
  • Proposed design for web-driven HBase deployments

Project Leader

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 06.2014

Regulatory Compliance Projects

  • Collaborated with Compliance department to extract requirements, architected, designed and developed J2EE-based web applications - Best Execution with counterparties and annual code of ethics disclosures.
  • Led team of developers to maintain and enhance existing code of ethics approval systems, and e-feed setups. Build vs Buy analysis and proposed steal threads for new generic and scalable code of ethics platform, as a replacement to these systems.

Collaboration Tools

  • Architected, designed, and successfully led team of developers to build DJango based web application to manage employee-profiles

Fundamental Research Group Projects

  • Led developer team to build dashboard to manage discussions related to fundamental groups
  • Led developer team to maintain and improve performance of algorithms that generate score to represent knowledge of deal groups on companies

Salesforce.com platform based Projects​​

  • Led developer team to build and maintain CRM and workflow management applications on Salesforce.com platform for various deal groups

Senior Member/Member Technical Staff

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
03.2006 - 06.2009

Salesforce.com platform based Projects​

  • Led design and development of Java-based components/tools to integrate in-house platforms with SFDC platform
  • Proposed and built tool to auto-generate SControl components

Issue and Project Tracking System​

  • Significant enhancements to JIRA-like web-based work tracking system

Member Technical Staff

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 03.2006

Hedge Fund Accounting System (C#.Net)

  • Developed and maintained features in hedge fund accounting software to track fund structure, capital inflows, PnL, and expense allocation

Assistant Consultant

Genisys Software
11.2000 - 09.2001

Intellectual Property Management system

  • Worked as intern/QA engineer on web application to maintain Intellectual Property Rights associated with financial and license information of products developed for UK based client



Education

Master of Technology (MTech) - Information Technology

University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • J2EE, Spring, Struts, myBatis, Apache Shindig/Rave, JUnit, Tomcat/Jetty
  • NodeJS, React, SocketIO, kue, D3, Patternfly, Mocha/Chai, jQuery components, Promise
  • DJango, Cheetah, SQL Alchemy, modwsgi
  • Kafka, Redis
  • Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Terraform
  • Postgres, HBase, Cassandra
  • Salesforcecom platform
  • Perl, Ruby

Career Highlights

  • Architect for Availability cloud initiatives at Salesforce, leading geographically distributed teams with technical road maps, system design and implementation. Mentored leaders and engineers at various levels, creating engineering best practices to set the teams up for success.
  • Presented Salesforce READS framework on GrafanaCon 2021 (https://grafana.com/go/grafanaconline/2021/salesforce-grafana-stack/)
  • Conceived and built innovative framework to monitor Einstein Analytics cloud services. Received award for the same in Firm-wide contest for patentable ideas. Patent filed.
  • Received President's Award from President Of Technology, given for top 1% performers across Salesforce
  • Productized hackathon idea for a portal to monitor HBase deployment across ~150 clusters

Timeline

Software Engineering Architect, Availability Cloud

Salesforce
04.2022 - Current

Principal Software Engineer - Availability Cloud

Salesforce
11.2019 - 04.2022

Principal Software Engineer - Einstein Analytics Cloud

Salesforce
02.2019 - 10.2019

Lead Software Engineer - Einstein Analytics Cloud

Salesforce
09.2015 - 01.2019

Senior Software Engineer - Big Data Cloud

Salesforce
01.2014 - 01.2015

Project Leader

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 06.2014

Senior Member/Member Technical Staff

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
03.2006 - 06.2009

Member Technical Staff

D E Shaw India Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 03.2006

Assistant Consultant

Genisys Software
11.2000 - 09.2001

Master of Technology (MTech) - Information Technology

University of Hyderabad

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Pavan Rangavajhala