Venkat Etikyala

Venkat Etikyala has a strong background in engineering and technology, with over 20 years of experience in various roles. Venkat is currently the Senior Director of Engineering, Platform and Architecture at iPass, where they lead the Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, and Architecture teams. Venkat collaborates with cross-functional teams, provides status updates to executives, and has improved platform availability at iPass.

Prior to their current role, Venkat served as the Senior Director of Engineering at OpsRamp, where they effectively managed software engineering for their service-centric AIOps platform. Venkat played a key role in the company's extraordinary growth, scaling revenue from zero to $10M and facilitating a venture capital raise. Venkat also built and oversaw a highly-scalable, high availability SaaS platform capable of handling massive amounts of data.

Before joining OpsRamp, Venkat worked as a Technical Director at CenturyLink (formerly Savvis Inc.), where they were involved in the development of an enterprise-level public cloud IaaS and DBaaS platform. Venkat used data analytics tools to analyze customer usage patterns and shape future product development.

Venkat's engineering career started at Cisco Systems, where they served as a Senior Software Architect. Venkat designed and developed a Unified Data Platform using Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and Solr, enabling advanced processing, storage, and search capabilities. Venkat also created smart services that incorporated disruptive technologies, predictive analytics, and situation awareness.

Earlier in their career, Venkat gained experience as a Programmer Analyst at Bank of America and as a Software Engineer at Kernex Microsystems Inc.

Venkat Etikyala obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University. No information is available regarding the start or end year of this educational experience.