Kiran Venkatesh
Software Engineering Manager
Engineering leader with nearly 15 years building high-performing teams and enterprise SaaS systems at Microsoft and Amazon. Focused on cross-functional leadership, cloud-native architecture, developer experience, and growing the next generation of engineering leaders.
What I Do
Team Building
Hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams that deliver with velocity and quality.
Technical Strategy
Bridging business goals with engineering execution. Driving architecture decisions that scale.
Developer Experience
Removing friction from engineering workflows. Building tooling and processes that let teams focus on what matters.
Talent Growth
Mentoring engineers into senior roles and future leaders. Creating cultures of feedback and continuous learning.
Experience
Nearly 15 years · Microsoft · Amazon · Transamerica · Cloud · SaaS
Led an engineering team building enterprise D365 business applications. Drove technical strategy, team growth, and delivery. Established SRE/DevOps practices and drove CI/CD pipeline optimization to improve engineering excellence.
Led international expansion initiatives facilitating 4+ country launches. Designed high-performance scalable solutions optimizing the retail experience. Collaborated across 5+ teams to integrate international payment systems.
Modernized the full-stack architecture, boosting user engagement 20% and cutting latency 25%. Built scalable SSO web services improving data retrieval efficiency by 30%. Ranked among top 20 innovators company-wide.
Projects
A household organizer app with 54 reminder types across health, pets, finance, and home categories. Features family sharing for up to 8 members, smart scheduling, cloud sync with AES-256 encryption, 8-language support, and gamification with streaks and leaderboards.
An automotive comparison platform that lets you evaluate 27+ cars side by side across lifestyle, budget, and comfort preferences. Built to simplify the car buying research process.
Education
Community
Led migration of the community website to AWS, reducing annual maintenance costs by 90%. Organized regional and cultural events fostering community engagement.