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Prasad Guuduru

Lead Member Technical Staff - Software Engineering
Fremont

Summary

Professional Experience:

  • Orchestrated microservices design and implementation within a microservices architecture, emphasizing modularity, scalability, and flexibility to meet evolving business needs.
  • Led the successful integration of AWS Cognito for Identity Modules, ensuring seamless and secure user authentication and authorization across applications.
  • Implemented GraphQL solutions using AWS AppSync, enabling efficient data querying and manipulation through a unified API layer, enhancing application performance and user experience.
  • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to design and showcase proof-of-concept implementations, fostering innovation and alignment with business objectives.
  • Mentored and coached team members on AWS serverless best practices, cultivating a culture of continuous learning and improvement to drive excellence in project delivery.
  • Conducted regular architecture reviews and optimizations to enhance system performance, scalability, and maintainability, ensuring long-term success of the applications.
  • Demonstrated the feasibility and benefits of serverless architectures through successful deployments and performance optimizations, driving cost efficiency and operational excellence.
  • Made significant contributions to local stack implementation, enhancing developer productivity and standardizing monitoring practices, resulting in streamlined development workflows and improved code quality.
  • Proficient in Java and TypeScript, with extensive experience in backend, infrastructure, and DevOps. Also familiar with Ruby, Python, and Go. Capable of frontend solutions, though not pixel-perfect, with expertise rated at 40% in backend, 40% in infra and DevOps, and 20% in frontend, including web component strategies.
  • Leaded multiple initiatives and did cross organization communication while implementing distributed systems using AWS serverless frameworks for marketing technology.
  • Elevated free trial org user usage by 5x through the optimization of the signup process, facilitating seamless transitions to Salesforce org after form submission.
  • Implemented GraphQL for onboarding, enhancing content across 8+ marketing websites.
  • Designed scalable identity modules for Salesforce, supporting 30k peak logins during events.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Principle Software Engineer

Drata
01.2026 - Current

Why What

To enable a future-ready, fine-grained authorization foundation beyond static RBAC and JWT-only models, supporting enterprise-scale access control and continuous compliance needs.

  • Designed the Authorization (AuthZ) strategy for transitioning core platform services from legacy access control to policy-based and attribute-based models (PBAC/ABAC).
  • Built and validated a proof of concept demonstrating migration from coarse-grained authorization to fine-grained, policy-driven enforcement aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 expectations.
  • Prototyped a session-token–based authorization model as an alternative to JWT-only enforcement, enabling dynamic policy evaluation, runtime access changes, and reduced token complexity.
  • Collaborated with security, platform, and product stakeholders to define initial policy boundaries, enforcement points, and extensibility considerations for future enterprise adoption.

LMTS - Identity Integration Services

Salesforce
05.2023 - Current

What Why How

Provided Trailblazer Identity for Salesforce websites, enabling a unified identity layer across customer-facing experiences.

To create a Trailblazer Identity Account and wire profile data across systems, converting prospects into customers and enabling personalized, authenticated user experiences across Salesforce properties.

LMTS - Content & Taxonomy Team

Salesforce
12.2022 - 03.2023

What Why How

Unified content across Salesforce websites and exposed it as a reusable, centralized content service.

To provide internal websites with aggregated, consistent content that can be reused across the Salesforce ecosystem, enabling the Marketing organization to ingest content from multiple sources, normalize it under a unified schema, and ensure terminology consistency across all websites.

This allowed changes (e.g., product renames or messaging updates) to cascade immediately across all sites, eliminating duplication and content drift.

LMTS - Taxonomy API

Salesforce
01.2022 - 11.2022

What: Exposing Taxonomy Content as a service

  • Why: For achieving same naming conventions across all the different internal websites
  • How: 1. Taxonomist author content via Taxonomy Management Tool. Based on product requirements we have onboarded an API for consuming that data, sending back cached content back to consumers.
  • 2. Lead a team of engineers, interacted with product and taxonomists in collecting API requirements and communicated with Taxonomy Management Vendor for achieving the integration.

LMTS - Personalization Team

Salesforce
01.2020 - 12.2021

What: Onboarded developer pipelines, tooling and 2) contributed to personalization scripts.

  • Why: For deploying code to wordpress and 2) for achieving personalization across website.
  • How: 1. Partnered with Frontend team, Security and Wordpress team on achieving deployments from salesforce code repo to wordpress servers.
  • 2. Was part of personalization team in contributing to Personalization beacon library for integrating evergage.

LMTS - Platform Team

Salesforce
01.2017 - 12.2019

What: Provisioned Digital Applications infrastructure in rackspace and orchestrating deployment pipelines.

  • Why: For managing marketing platform on third party cloud provider.
  • How: 1. Contributed to Infra as Code (Chef) Scripts for spinning up multiple application servers and webservers onto stack.
  • 2. Implemented pipeline for deploying artifacts.
  • 3. Java Based Application for intercepting the leads and delegating requests to MRIS Application for further lead processing.

SMTS - OCMS to AEM Team

Salesforce
03.2016 - 12.2017

What: Created AEM Web Components and Migrated and regenerated 18k+ forms from one CMS to another CMS while achieving author-ability.

  • Why: Out of Marketing Organization decision we want to migrate all the digital content to better CMS from a legacy CMS. However, there were 18k forms still were running on legacy CMS hosted on R&D Application servers, We had to migrate all those off R&D Servers and achieve author-ability.
  • How: 1. Lead team of junior engineers and consultants, Partnered with Marketing organization and identified the flavors of forms that needs to be migrated .
  • 2. Developed equivalent form fields web components in AEM
  • 3. Came up with a script to generate those component.
  • 4. Scraped all the website forms and repopulated those via ETAL application.

SMTS - Form Implementation

Salesforce
01.2015 - 02.2016

What: Onboarding functionality for Fast Sign-up with in salesforce website where customers right after submitting the form we want to spin a salesforce product org and land them onto product with out email verification.

  • Why: Prior to this implementation, all the prospects who wants to try out a free trial org needs to go back to email and click on a product link async to try out salesforce product. For, faster conversion we want to onboard a Faster Signup Forms.
  • How: 1. I single handedly, interacted with Marketing Product, R&D Product and R&D Architect, collected the requirements and onboarded a POC in 3 months.
  • 2. Interacted with UX at that time, and R&D teams on expanded the module to all flavours of forms. (example, submitting developer form needs to spin up developer org.)

SMTS - Translation Module

Salesforce
03.2014 - 12.2014

What: Implemented Translation Module with in CMS

  • Why: At that, we have onboarded a new localization translation agency ( SDL ) and we had to export content and ingest translated content to CMS
  • How: 1. Partnered with Lead Engineer, vendor, product and security team and gathered requirements.
  • 2. Implemented a translation module with Open CMS for securely exporting and ingesting the data and providing a interface option for authors for sending translations.
  • 3. Created a workflow engine for orchestrating the exports, approval, ingestions.

MTS - Fullstack Engineer

Salesforce
02.2013 - 03.2014

What: Contributing to frontend and backend system with in CMS

  • Why: For allowing web experience managers to author content
  • How: 1. We have extended Open Source CMS and created modules around it based on marketing organizations asks.
  • 2. Implemented modules like Redirect management module, Replication module, Translation Module with in CMS.

Senior Soware Engineering Associate

Cognizant
02.2012 - 02.2013
  • Bootstrapped Netflix similar product call'd TV Everywhere for Tivo Inc.
  • Owning BackEnd Api's.
  • Driving Offshore team for delivering multiple modules w.r.t TV Everywhere project.

Soware Engineering Consultant

Syntel
05.2010 - 02.2012
  • Contributing to Service Oriented Applications.
  • Partnering with onsite teams in delivering quality code.

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts (EA)
05.2007 - 05.2010
  • Developing web based tools for marketing and sales teams.
  • Contributing to Frontend/Backend and Database modules.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad
05.2007

Skills

Vibe Engineering

Microservices

Identity

Taxonomy

API

Distributed Systems

AWS Serverless

Terraform

Typescript

Java

GraphQL

Timeline

Principle Software Engineer

Drata
01.2026 - Current

LMTS - Identity Integration Services

Salesforce
05.2023 - Current

LMTS - Content & Taxonomy Team

Salesforce
12.2022 - 03.2023

LMTS - Taxonomy API

Salesforce
01.2022 - 11.2022

LMTS - Personalization Team

Salesforce
01.2020 - 12.2021

LMTS - Platform Team

Salesforce
01.2017 - 12.2019

SMTS - OCMS to AEM Team

Salesforce
03.2016 - 12.2017

SMTS - Form Implementation

Salesforce
01.2015 - 02.2016

SMTS - Translation Module

Salesforce
03.2014 - 12.2014

MTS - Fullstack Engineer

Salesforce
02.2013 - 03.2014

Senior Soware Engineering Associate

Cognizant
02.2012 - 02.2013

Soware Engineering Consultant

Syntel
05.2010 - 02.2012

Software Engineer

Electronic Arts (EA)
05.2007 - 05.2010

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Prasad GuuduruLead Member Technical Staff - Software Engineering