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Kishore Velchuri

Executive platform engineering leader specializing in multi-cloud SaaS and data platforms

WP EngineCity University of SeattleUSA29 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks Remote

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Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.

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Key Strengths

  • 8+ years building and scaling cloud-native platforms and distributed systems
  • Led platform and infrastructure engineering for large-scale SaaS environments
  • Deep expertise in scalability and reliability for high-throughput web applications and APIs
  • Hands-on technical leadership across architecture, code reviews, debugging, and prototyping
  • Managed engineering organizations from 12 to about 180+ geographically distributed engineers
  • Built and led teams across platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and database reliability
  • Strong PostgreSQL scaling and performance optimization experience
  • Drove platform modernization from legacy VM deployments to Kubernetes-based cloud-native architecture
  • Established standardized CI/CD pipelines and centralized telemetry practices
  • Translated customer reliability issues into platform investment roadmaps tied to business impact
  • Effective cross-functional leadership across platform, data, product, SRE, and security teams
  • Resolved complex dependency conflicts through API ownership models and hybrid consistency design
  • Constructive performance management and coaching for senior engineers

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Experience

Head of Platform EngineeringWP Engine · Aug 2024 – Present
Senior Director, Cloud Platform & ServicesVMware · Jun 2021 – Aug 2024
Head of Cloud Services & DataPlatform, FinTech PlatformBlackLine · Apr 2020 – May 2021
Chief Technology Officer, DataPrivacyAnalysis PlatformPrivacyDynamics · Nov 2019 – Apr 2020
Sr. Director of Cloud Platform EngineeringTeradata · Dec 2016 – Nov 2019
Principal Group Software Engineering ManagerMicrosoft · May 2011 – Nov 2016
Sr. Engineering Manager, GlobalPayments & FraudDetection PlatformExpedia · Jan 2010 – May 2011
Sr. Software Development Manager, Commerce PlatformRealNetworks · Dec 2002 – Jan 2010
Senior Software Design EngineerMicrosoft · Feb 2001 – Nov 2002
Senior Software EngineerTelekom Malaysia · Sep 1996 – Jan 2001

Education

City University of Seattlemaster, Business Management (2007)
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universitymaster, Computer Science and Engineering (1997)
Osmania Universitymaster, Digital Systems Engineering (1996)

Languages

English

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