Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Technical Details
Timeline
Generic
HARSHAVARDHAN VELURU

HARSHAVARDHAN VELURU

Chennai

Summary

Engineering leader with 13+ years of experience architecting and delivering cloud-native enterprise platforms across AWS and Azure environments. Leads end-to-end execution of complex initiatives by translating scope into structured workstreams, aligning cross-functional dependencies, and driving release readiness across distributed teams. Combines strong system design expertise with disciplined delivery ownership to ensure scalable and reliable platform outcomes.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Engineer (Platform Delivery)

EPAM Systems
09.2023 - Current

Led end-to-end delivery of cloud-native platform enhancements across Azure and AWS environments for healthcare and financial services systems, owning architectural decisions, execution sequencing, cross-team dependency resolution, and release readiness.

  • Strengthened platform governance by redefining change-tracking semantics to provide explicit visibility into record state transitions, improving audit transparency and downstream reliability.
  • Improved execution consistency by restructuring pipeline behavior to correctly handle complex multi-update scenarios, eliminating consumer-side workarounds and reducing operational overhead.
  • Reduced engineering dependency in validation workflows by introducing a centralized rule management model with controlled stakeholder access while maintaining governance standards.
  • Converted scoped initiatives into sequenced execution workstreams, aligning engineering tasks with milestone commitments and proactively resolving cross-team infrastructure and DevOps dependencies.
  • Addressed recurring integration bottlenecks by establishing structured coordination checkpoints and clarifying ownership boundaries across engineering and infrastructure teams.
  • Facilitated sprint demonstrations and formalized release documentation to ensure transparent stakeholder visibility into incremental platform changes.
  • Partnered with stakeholders to evaluate architectural trade-offs and negotiate phased delivery approaches under timeline constraints, balancing business urgency with long-term platform stability.

Senior Engineer

Caterpillar India
10.2019 - 09.2023

Led end-to-end design and delivery of a cloud-native web application platform, owning backend, frontend, and AWS cloud architecture while driving structured cross-functional execution across product, infrastructure, and analytics teams.

  • Owned architectural design across backend microservices, frontend components, and AWS infrastructure supporting analytics and reporting workflows.
  • Managed cross-functional dependencies across UI/UX, backend engineering, data analytics, testing, DevOps, firewall, and cloud infrastructure teams to align feature delivery with milestone commitments.
  • Negotiated feature scope and delivery sequencing with stakeholders under tight timelines, introducing phased releases to ensure system stability while meeting business urgency.
  • Coordinated with infrastructure and security teams to resolve environment-level constraints and deployment bottlenecks, facilitating smoother integration phases.
  • Led release readiness validation across frontend, backend, and cloud components to ensure stable and reliable production deployments.
  • Drove conflict resolution and established clear ownership boundaries across collaborating teams, enhancing delivery transparency and execution predictability.

Data Engineer

Caterpillar India (via Randstad)
06.2017 - 10.2019
  • Developed and productionized patented algorithm for automated classification of construction site operational zones, facilitating data-driven productivity analysis from large-scale equipment telemetry data.
  • Engineered scalable backend and data processing components to operationalize telemetry analytics workflows, enhancing reporting capabilities.

Senior Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
12.2015 - 06.2017
  • Developed automation and backend solutions to enhance enterprise workflows using Python and SQL.
  • Facilitated Agile adoption and CI/CD implementation within the team, resulting in more consistent releases.

Software Engineer

Caterpillar India (via HCL Technologies)
08.2012 - 12.2015
  • Developed virtual ECM simulation platform for hardware-independent validation of onboard automotive software, reducing reliance on physical test setups.
  • Built automation framework on simulator to execute sanity, regression, and feature test suites, enhancing test coverage and accelerating embedded software release.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

VIT University
Vellore
01-2012

Skills

  • Cloud-Native Platform Architecture (AWS & Azure)
  • Microservices & Distributed Systems Design
  • End-to-End Platform Delivery & Execution Ownership
  • Cross-Functional Dependency Resolution
  • Release Planning & Deployment Readiness
  • Architectural Trade-off Analysis & Scope Negotiation
  • Data Governance & Execution Model Design
  • Scalable Backend & API Design
  • Performance, Reliability & Operational Efficiency4
  • Stakeholder Communication & Sprint Demonstrations

Technical Details

Cloud Platforms:
AWS (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Glue, API Gateway, ALB, S3, RDS, SQS, IAM), Azure Functions

Backend & APIs:
Python, FastAPI, RESTful Services, GraphQL

Frontend:
React (working knowledge)

DevOps & CI/CD:
Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps

Databases & Analytics:
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake

Collaboration & Delivery Tools:
JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams

Timeline

Lead Engineer (Platform Delivery)

EPAM Systems
09.2023 - Current

Senior Engineer

Caterpillar India
10.2019 - 09.2023

Data Engineer

Caterpillar India (via Randstad)
06.2017 - 10.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
12.2015 - 06.2017

Software Engineer

Caterpillar India (via HCL Technologies)
08.2012 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Science -

VIT University
HARSHAVARDHAN VELURU