Damini Satya KAMMAKOMATI
Hyderabad
Summary
Lead Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, scaling, and operating large-scale distributed systems across cloud-native environments. Specialized in Kubernetes, AWS, observability, and site reliability engineering, with proven expertise in driving reliability, automation, and cost optimization across 400+ EKS clusters. Strong background in AI/ML applications, including prompt engineering, LangChain-based automation, and AI-driven tools for root cause analysis and changelog generation. Recognized for technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers to adopt modern SRE and AI practices.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Engineering LMTS
Salesforce
Hyderabad
08.2023 - Current
- Key contributor to enterprise AI tools, including automated root cause analysis for test failures, pull request change-log generation, and daily developer productivity enhancements using LLMs.
- Skilled in Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Python, Spinnaker, and large language model (LLM) integration for developer workflows and platform automation.
- Played a pivotal role in scaling and managing 400+ EKS clusters, driving distributed systems capacity planning, performance tuning, and large-scale reliability improvements.
Software Engineering SMTS
Salesforce
Hyderabad
02.2021 - 07.2023
- Key contributor to the public cloud transition.
- Led incident management and on-call operations, reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) by improving monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms.
- Designed and maintained observability pipelines using Grafana, and Argus to surface actionable insights and drive faster root cause analysis.
- Implemented reliability-focused practices such as release stagger optimization, integration testing, and error-budget tracking to improve service stability.
- Developed self-service tools for debugging, heap/thread dump analysis, and log correlation, reducing developer toil and operational overhead.
Software Engineering MTS
Salesforce
Hyderabad
08.2019 - 01.2021
- Playing a key role in building a configuration management tool internally to manage more than 18,000+ config parameters.
- Building tools to ease the transition of services to the public cloud.
- Member of core open-source team at Salesforce.
- A thoughtful leader, team player, I try to project the entire team and uplift every team member.
Software Engineering AMTS
Salesforce
Hyderabad
06.2017 - 07.2019
- As a member of the Infrastructure delivery team, I am responsible for maintaining and writing software to build next-generation cloud-scale data centers.
- Putting my software skills to use as I learn about Linux OS, Kickstart (PXE, DHCP, TFTP, etc.), Systems and network management.
- Previous to Infrastructure delivery team, I was part of the community cloud with a focus on building files components for Salesforce communities.
- Community cloud helps companies connect and collaborate with customers, partners, and employees.
- My primary focus was on contributing some key features to library member management and improving accessibility, localization of certain features.
Software Development Engineer
Kony, Inc.
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 05.2017
- Company Overview: Kony Inc, a cloud-based provider of mobility, omnichannel and internet-of-things systems and services.
- I was a Front-End developer, primarily on AngularJS at MBaaS, a platform providing backend development as a service.
- I was responsible for the user experience enhancement, usability and revamp of the portal interface for MBaaS.
- Kony Inc, a cloud-based provider of mobility, omnichannel and internet-of-things systems and services.
Student developer at Google Summer of Code
loklak
Remote
04.2016 - 08.2016
- Student developer at Google Summer of Code 2016 and primarily worked on the Loklak project.
- Loklak which is a distributed search and analytics framework to collect, store, search and analyze social media.
- My primary contribution is around improving the API consumption and scraping data by building Loklak applications for a wider audience and use cases.
- This includes leaderboards, twitter walls, sentiment analysis of tweets and so on.
- With the amount of data being scraped, We introduced Susi.ai, a chatbot framework primarily trained on the Loklak data.
- My primary contribution to building the Susi web client.
Associate Engineer (Intern)
Kony, Inc.
Hyderabad
12.2015 - 07.2016
- I started my journey with Kony, Inc. as an Intern with a primary focus on revamping the user experience for MBaaS platform along with optimizing the code.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Computer Science and Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.2016
Skills
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes (EKS), AWS (EC2, S3, MRAP, IAM), GCP, Terraform, Spinnaker, Helm
- Programming & Frameworks: Java (Concurrency, Spring Boot), Python, Shell scripting
- DevOps & Automation: CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), Infrastructure as Code, Release Management
- Observability & Reliability: OpenSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Argus
- AI/ML & LLMs: Prompt engineering and fine-tuning strategies for large language models (LLMs), LangChain for document retrieval, orchestration, and agent-based workflows
Accomplishments
- Granted, U.S. Patent #11762656 for Service Fabrication Tool (CRAFT), a custom resource abstraction and fabrication framework enabling idempotent, language-agnostic CRUD operations, and declarative operator-based container deployments
- Recipient of the Google Open Source Peer Bonus for impactful contributions to the open-source ecosystem
- Honored with the Salesforce All-Star Award for outstanding engineering contributions and leadership
- Invited speaker at renowned technology and open-source conferences, including KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Grace Hopper Celebration, and JSConf, sharing expertise on cloud-native technologies, AI/ML, and developer productivity
- Department gold medalist for academic excellence in computer science and engineering
Certification
LFS101x.2: Introduction to Linux
Languages
- English, Full Professional
- Telugu, Native or Bilingual
- Hindi, Full Professional
Timeline
Software Engineering LMTS
Salesforce
08.2023 - Current
Software Engineering SMTS
Salesforce
02.2021 - 07.2023
Software Engineering MTS
Salesforce
08.2019 - 01.2021
Software Engineering AMTS
Salesforce
06.2017 - 07.2019
Software Development Engineer
Kony, Inc.
07.2016 - 05.2017
Student developer at Google Summer of Code
loklak
04.2016 - 08.2016
Associate Engineer (Intern)
Kony, Inc.
12.2015 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Technology - BTech - Computer Science and Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University