Trellix ( erstwhile McAfee Cybersecurity ) | Bengaluru

Staff Software Engineer

• Proposed and performed a POC for custom LLM-powered intelligence workflow on AWS Bedrock, leveraging large-scale log analytics data to automate proactive threat detection and alert generation.
• Led the end-to-end architecture of a distributed search and analytics system for the cybersecurity product (Extended Detection & Response), enabling ingestion of 70 billion events/day of security telemetry and powering large-scale investigative search workloads.
• Led the migration of the platform from self-managed Elasticsearch clusters to AWS OpenSearch, transitioning all enterprise customers with zero downtime and no service impact; collaborated across engineering, operations, and product teams to improve scalability, reduce operational overhead, and deliver $3.1M+ in annual infrastructure savings.
• Architected and implemented a redesign of the platform's search and analytics infrastructure, migrating from legacy search systems to a scalable EMR and Snowflake-based architecture, resulting in 70x faster search performance and over $800K in annual infrastructure cost savings.

Senior Software Engineer

• Architected and implemented a customer provisioning pipeline to segment customers based on data ingestion patterns, enabling a new usage-based pricing model and optimizing COGS. Successfully restructured 1,000+ B2B customer accounts according to ingestion and data consumption characteristics, supporting improved profitability and operational efficiency.
• Architected and implemented a customer provisioning pipeline to segment customers based on data ingestion patterns, enabling a new usage-based pricing model and optimizing COGS. Successfully restructured 1,000+ B2B customer accounts according to ingestion and data consumption characteristics, supporting improved profitability and operational efficiency.
• Drove infrastructure standardization by developing reusable Terraform modules, Kubernetes Helm charts, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment consistency, operational reliability, and engineering productivity.

Software Engineer

• Drove strategic cost optimization initiatives across AWS and Elasticsearch infrastructure, delivering $1.8M in annual COGS savings through architecture optimization, resource right-sizing, and operational improvements while maintaining uninterrupted service for 1,500+ enterprise customers worldwide.
• Architected and automated end-to-end deployment and release pipelines for application services, infrastructure provisioning, and critical production hotfixes, enabling faster and more reliable software delivery across the organization.
• Owned Kubernetes platform operations and observability initiatives for four production products, implementing standardized deployment practices, monitoring, alerting, and operational controls that improved system reliability, scalability, and engineering efficiency.

Wolters Kluwer (US based global provider of professional information, software, AI solutions, and services) | Chennai

Associate Cloud Engineer

• Led initiatives that improved cloud governance, automation, and operational efficiency across AWS and Azure environments, enabling scalable infrastructure management for enterprise applications.
• Built a centralized enterprise platform providing leadership teams with greater visibility into cloud assets, compliance posture, and operational health across multiple cloud providers and business systems.
• Led disaster recovery validation efforts for critical business applications and data platforms, ensuring systems could recover successfully during outages and strengthening overall business continuity readiness.

• Extreme Ownership Award — Received for saving $3 million in overall product infrastructure and operational costs, stabilizing the product, training the engineering team for SLAs, and standardizing operational runbooks for the entire team at Trellix.
• Trellix Excellence Award 2023 — Received the General Manager's 2023 Excellence Award for saving more than $2 million in operational cost for the flagship cybersecurity product.
• AWS Published Blog and Case Study — 
  • Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/trellix-achieved-35-cost-savings-and-enhanced-security-with-amazon-opensearch-service/
  • Case Study: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/trellix-case-study/

• BE(Information Technology), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

• Co-Founder/Strategy, Serving Nicely Foundation — A Non-Profit Organization working in the field of social justice and youth empowerment; successfully onboarded multiple students year-on-year to Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, targeting socially and economically backward gifted students who lack access to accelerated learning due to financial and social constraints.