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NAVEENKUMAR MUGUDA

Summary

Software engineer with over two decades of experience across Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Flipkart, and Target. Career focus on platformisation, control planes, and management planes across ads, commerce, logistics, storage, and stream processing. Adept at combining first-principles design, systems thinking, and domain expertise to deliver scalable, durable, and adaptable platforms. Active in the engineering community as a speaker, mentor, and writer.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Google
10.2023 - Current
  • Architected management plane for YouTube Commerce
  • Delivered features like bulk redressal, redundancy prevention, and cross-environment promotion.
  • Bootstrapped and led the Persistent Disk Control Plane team in India.
  • Delivered management capabilities such as Instant Snapshot Groups, Snapshot Groups and Telescopic Schedules for Google Cloud.


Architect

Salesforce
02.2022 - 04.2023
  • Architect for Order Management Platform and Media & Energy Verticals.
  • Championed and enhanced the Order Management Platform platform to support multiple variation points with declarative orchestration.
  • Conceived and developed a flexible data migration framework, enabling seamless transitions and scalability.
  • Generated multiple disclosures and hackathon ideas, fostering innovation.

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn
10.2017 - 02.2022
  • Architected Ads Quality Platform supporting pluggable reviewers, ad formats, workflows, and orchestrations.
  • Introduced workflow DSL, asynchronous call stack, snapshot and observability features.
  • Championed functional programming, domain modeling, and clean code practices.
  • Built reusable libraries (e.g., funp) to ease adoption of FP across teams.
  • Elevated team capabilities through mentoring, pairing, and workshops.
  • Developed grant mechanisms, historical tracking, and other key features for powerful access management.
  • Developed reusable components that significantly reduced development effort on multiple projects.

Principal Engineer

Target
11.2015 - 10.2017
  • Led architecture and development of a unified checkout platform across online, in-store, IoT, and self-checkout channels.
  • Served as architect for Cart and Checkout subsystems in Target’s e-commerce offering.

Architect

Flipkart
12.2013 - 10.2015
  • Conceptualized and built a microservices-based logistics platform.
  • Developed the Alternative Delivery Model for last-mile delivery.
  • Transformed the notification system into modular subsystems (alerts, promos, solicited notifications).
  • Scaled the Logistics Promise Engine during Big Billion Day sales.
  • Built a cross-DC solution for managing critical information with concurrent writes.

Principal Engineer

Apigee
01.2012 - 12.2013
  • Ideated and developed Aries, a distributed job execution framework with fault isolation, retries, failover, and load balancing.
  • Simplified platform architecture by redesigning transport semantics.
  • Implemented hybrid deployment across on-premise and cloud.

Computer Scientist

Adobe
01.2011 - 01.2012
  • Re-architected LiveCycle foundation; prototyped intelligent ad placement.

Principal Engineer

Yahoo!
11.2009 - 04.2011
  • Developed PC, a container and framework for ultra-low latency, distributed stream processing applications.
  • Delivered DAG abstraction, location transparency, intelligent routing, and load balancing for real-time processing.
  • Key contribution: Stream Processing Platform foundational for Yahoo scale.

Lead Engineer

Fair Isaac
01.2008 - 01.2009
  • Designed components for Enterprise Decision Management Suite; built async services and context propagation.

Software Engineer / Co-op

IBM
01.1999 - 01.2008
  • Built Lotus plugins, content repository interfaces, deployment tools; provided L3 WebSphere support.
  • Filed multiple disclosures, including an Invention of the Quarter.

Education

Master of Science -

North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Engineering - undefined

Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering

Skills

Platformization – Designed and implemented platforms for Ads Quality (LinkedIn), Commerce (Target), Logistics (Flipkart), and Stream Processing (Yahoo)

Control & Management Planes – Built systems enabling orchestration, observability, configurability and operational resilience across Google Cloud, YouTube Commerce, and LinkedIn Ads

Ideation & Evangelism – Conceived, championed, and delivered new features and capabilities (eg, workflow DSL at LinkedIn, snapshot groups at Google, data migration frameworks at Salesforce)

Distributed Systems – Extensive work with large-scale, low-latency, multi-DC, high-throughput systems

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Timeline

Software Engineer

Google
10.2023 - Current

Architect

Salesforce
02.2022 - 04.2023

Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn
10.2017 - 02.2022

Principal Engineer

Target
11.2015 - 10.2017

Architect

Flipkart
12.2013 - 10.2015

Principal Engineer

Apigee
01.2012 - 12.2013

Computer Scientist

Adobe
01.2011 - 01.2012

Principal Engineer

Yahoo!
11.2009 - 04.2011

Lead Engineer

Fair Isaac
01.2008 - 01.2009

Software Engineer / Co-op

IBM
01.1999 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - undefined

Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering

Master of Science -

North Carolina State University

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