About

Pradeep Kumar Surisetty is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in managing global performance and scale teams. He is currently working at Red Hat as the Senior Engineering Manager for Performance and Scale Engineering, where he manages different teams of varying skill sets, senior leaders, managers, and engineers across different geographies who work on different Red Hat products in the Performance and Scale Department. Pradeep is known for his expertise in focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability of large enterprises distributed systems. He has a strong track record of scaling Red Hat products to address large scale customer use cases. For instance, he has scaled Red Hat Openstack to 1000 nodes, Red Hat Satellite to 60K hosts, and RedHat Managed Services Platform (Console.Redhat.com) to millions of payloads. He has also handled large scale event logs with Ansible Tower. In his past roles at Red Hat, Pradeep was responsible for managing global performance and scale teams to build large scale microservices platforms on containerized platforms, large scale Red Hat Openstack to handle different workloads, and large scale managed Kafka service on containerized platforms. He has also improved performance and scale of automation platforms, developed benchmarking and performance analysis frameworks for distributed systems, kernel, and developed open source performance tools to drive critical suite of monitoring, logging, and performance benchmarking on on-premise and public clouds. Pradeep holds a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) from JNTU Anantapur. He has expertise in various technologies such as Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Microservices, Azure, GCP, and Infra. Overall, Pradeep is a skilled Senior Engineering Manager with a strong focus on scalability, performance, and reliability of large enterprises distributed systems. His expertise in scaling Red Hat products to address large scale customer use cases is highly commendable.