Raghuram Ettaboina
Hyderabad
Summary
- Over 11 years of experience in designing and developing distributed systems and scalable cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Expertise in backend engineering, microservices, and multi-tenant architectures, with a strong emphasis on implementing security best practices.
- Proven experience in improving code quality through clean coding standards, test automation, and hands-on technical mentorship.
- Committed to continuous learning and innovation in software engineering methodologies.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Software Engineer
Pegasystems India Inc.
07.2016 - Current
- Built highly available, distributed systems using microservices, event-driven messaging, and scalable data stores.
- Designed and optimized multi-tenant architectures to ensure performance isolation, scalability, and operational stability.
- Implemented authentication and authorization layers using industry standards to protect platform APIs and services.
- Implemented the security features (RBAC, ABAC, Cryptography, CORS, CSP, CSRF, JWT, OAuth2, SSO) for the Pega Platform and Pega Launchpad products.
- Designed and implemented outbound REST API integrations using configurable authentication profiles, enabling secure communication with external systems and third-party services.
- Drove quality initiatives across teams, promoting clean code practices, test-driven development, and a strong engineering quality culture.
- Introduced and standardized code review and design review practices to raise the overall engineering bar.
- Prototyped and evaluated new technologies during innovation initiatives (e.g., JVM optimizations, faster startup approaches, and modern authentication experiences).
- Mentored engineers on distributed systems concepts, system design trade-offs, and performance optimization.
- Influenced architectural decisions across teams through design phases and mentorship, aligning engineering efforts with a long-term technical strategy.
Software Engineer
Akana Software (Formerly SOA)
Hyderabad
12.2013 - 03.2016
- Worked on implementing and enhancing Security features such as OAuth and OpenID Connect providers.
- Delivered OAuth with different grant types, such as Authorization Code, Implicit, Resource Owner, and Client Credentials.
- Developed the SOAPUI, performance, and Selenium automation scripts for the REST APIs we implemented in the Community Manager product.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
JNTU
HyderabadSkills
- Microservices architecture
- Distributed systems design
- AWS services
- Kafka and NoSQL databases
- Data migration strategies
- AWS Cognito and CloudWatch
- Secrets management and notifications
- Kubernetes and Helm
- Java and Spring Boot
- Test-driven development practices
- System scalability and resiliency
- Rest API design and implementation
- OAuth2 and JWT security
- Security protocols and cryptography
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02), Successfully qualified
- Pegasystems certified System Architect (PCSA), Successfully qualified
Timeline
Principal Software Engineer
Pegasystems India Inc.
07.2016 - Current
Software Engineer
Akana Software (Formerly SOA)
12.2013 - 03.2016
B.Tech - Electronics and Communications Engineering
JNTU