Malleswara Rao Narikimilli

• Exploring New Startups and Ventures: Identifying and validating innovative startup opportunities, focusing on building scalable, cloud-native solutions, and AI Automation Agents.
• Technical Consulting: Providing hands-on expertise to businesses by optimizing technology stacks, implementing cloud-native architectures, and scaling infrastructure to meet dynamic business needs.
• Product Development & Architecture: Leading the design and development of cutting-edge solutions, including API management and cloud-based systems for both startups and large enterprises.

Ventures: BotRise.ai, mycommunitymart.in

Company Overview: Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP) is a cloud-enabled, API-driven integration platform that seamlessly connects Opera customers and their partners to the Oracle Hospitality core system. It provides scalable, customizable API gateways with multi-region support, multi-tenancy, and a developer portal for API design and integration.

Role: As Senior Engineering Manager for the OHIP and IDC teams, I lead the design and implementation of core platform architectures, focusing on multi-region APISIX gateways, real-time analytics solutions, and scalable billing systems. I ensure the platform is highly available, fault-tolerant, and supports secure, multi-tenant environments for customers across global regions.

I collaborate closely with product owners to define technical roadmaps and ensure alignment with business objectives. Managing multiple scrum teams, I oversee planning, status tracking, and inter-team dependencies, while mentoring team members to enhance their technical and functional capabilities.

I lead the architecture of multi-region APISIX gateways, ensuring high-performance, low-latency access across geographically distributed systems, while optimizing resource utilization. I also design and implement real-time analytics solutions to process large volumes of data and provide actionable insights. Additionally, I manage the development of a scalable billing system, integrating features like usage tracking, rate-limiting, and payment gateway support to accommodate diverse business models.

In my role, I make key architectural decisions using structured evaluation frameworks, collaborate with QA to refine testing strategies, lead bug triages, and oversee release management. I maintain a product ideas log, prioritize customer feedback, and work closely with cross-functional teams to streamline customer onboarding, and operational processes.

Role: Competency Lead, Delivery Manager, and Solutions Architect.

Program: Open-Source Cloud Engineering practice, offshore.

Clients: Coop, UK; Ladbrokes, UK; YARA, Norway; Solvay, Belgium; CWC & LLA.

Key Contributions:

• Involved in RFP and bid processes, team building and delivery
• Overall program management and customer stakeholder management from offshore
• Helped team in creating and consolidating Ladbrokes's data model
• Involved in defining the complex integration process designs for YARA with external system like Salesforce – customer data and Adobe – for crop data
• Designed data driven approach to migrating Ladbrokes Tibco based ESB to Coral’s API based microservices architecture, using in in-house built accelerator called “Data driven API builder” (which converts XML schemas to API RAML/YAML files
  Helped team to seamlessly integrate the API economy project with existing DevOps model for YARA.
• Involved in the DevOps maturity assessment exercise and recommendation of enterprise DevOps strategy for Ladbrokes
• Involved in defining & reviewing the overall API governance for Solvay along with API cookbook and API conventions