VenkataSatya Kandepu

• Coordinated delivery of planned solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
• Driven large, transformative initiatives that targeted huge saves to business.
• Identified automation opportunities by collaborating with peer and distributed teams in and out of End User Services space and effectively eliminated operational toils through process automated solutions.
• Built cross-functional teams to create self-managed pod teams to increase engineering efficiency and avoid unnecessary delivery delays to manage resources effectively.
• Engaged customers to discuss business needs and explore opportunities to increase Customer Experience by developing self-service and self-remediating solutions.
• Integrated new technologies and best practices to deliver solutions with best quality and at faster pace.
• Collaborated closely with customers to share information about available products and services, increasing utilization and delivery effectiveness.
• Translated customer needs into solution requirements using powerful value propositions and negotiation skills.

Additional roles currently played (in parallel):

• Solution Architect for 2 clusters with 5 POD teams within our space to provide structured approach to business application solutions, reviewing business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining vision and requirements for solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting most optimal option, and development of roadmap for selected solution.
• Software Engineering Practice Head role for global teams in our space ensuring colleagues and teams in our space are well equipped with knowledge, best practices & governance to be followed by coaching and mentoring in software engineering space to provide scalable solutions with best quality, standards to the customers.

• Application Development Manager for end – end development and maintenance of more than 6 Storage Applications like BreWS, SoRD, NLNP, BCSA ..etc.,
• Identify opportunities for development/automation and provides technical solutions for those work streams which enabled storage space to achieve cost saves at faster pace
• Responsible to develop applications/products with highest standards, process and firm-wide approved tools across all phases of SDLC Life Cycle
• Developed solution to remediate/re-certify 1200+ vulnerable NAS file shares.
• Responsible for design and development of API's to automate process of on-boarding Storage and ESX Service Accounts to Enterprise Password Vault
• Developed reporting tool to generate Free Storage Disk space information in vendor agnostic way (Patented Solution)
• Partnered with Storage Engineering/Operations/Support staff in identifying gaps and to develop strategic solutions to replace existing Manual or Semi-Automated process that are in place
• Manage, Motivate and provide regular feedback to team members

• Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders
• Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines
• Accelerated progress by continually reviewing performance, budgets and project timelines
• Single point contact for all offshore activities

Client: BlackBerry

• Test Case Automation Development for all native apps of BB10 in Python and C++ using Robot Framework and Momentics respectively.
• Setup and maintained complete Lab infrastructure for continuous Test Automation Development and Test Result Report Generation

Client: ADP

• Developed Virtual Build Library tool to automate process of packaging and deployment of various applications to multiple environments which reduce client infrastructure, turnaround time, costs and expenses, data entry and report generation time, monitoring time of various processes.
• Played key role in application architecture and database design

• Played key role in Migration from Symbian Tools to Nokia Tools in Build & Integration Area
• Developed internal product ‘submission tools’ to maintain gateway for all dev change submissions to code line in perforce by developers
• Automated process of SCM Migration of Symbian OS modules from Perforce to CMSynergy
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Perl and Python along with API development and working to improve overall team performance
• Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric solutions

• Increased efficiency by automating end-end process of build and packaging process for CollabNet product which saved >48 hours of manual effort
• Develop and maintain patch system for component upgrade
• Develop utility programs and scripts to support DevOps adoption
• Repository Gatekeeper for production and patch releases
• Automated process of creating catalog and archive historic releases
• Built and maintained continuous integration build system in Hudson

• Developed end-end Module of Contextual Advertising – Adentify (similar to Google AdSense)
• Implemented of memory based caching mechanism to serve Ads quickly which reduced load time from ~1 sec to ~0.2 sec
• Rewritten major part of existing server code from Perl to C to increase efficiency