About

Santi Kumar Narapureddy is an experienced engineering leader with a passion for technology and a proven track record of success in diverse technical environments. With almost 18 years of experience, Santi is highly motivated and possesses expertise in various areas, including cloud migration, cloud reference architectures, cloud application modernization, and application assessment for cloud readiness. As an Enterprise Cloud Solution Architect, Santi has played a crucial role in the Enterprise Public Cloud migration strategy, helping various products to migrate securely to the cloud while meeting all compliance requirements. He has conducted various workshops across locations for implementing diversified workloads like containerized applications, analytics, and ETL applications. Santi has also driven a strong DevOps culture and implemented CI/CD and IAC, with the ability to deploy production workloads multiple times a week. Santi's expertise in architecting, designing, developing, and deploying production-strength applications based on a wide variety of technologies, including J2EE, NoSQL, Stream processing, Microservices, Big Data, and Cloud technologies, is exceptional. He has experience in Scaling, Capacity Planning, and delivering highly Performant & Quality products. Santi has also driven the adoption of best practices around coding, design, and quality in the team. Santi's hands-on experience in implementing various frameworks such as Security (e.g., Shiro), Search (e.g., Elastic Search, Lucene, Apache Solr), Caching/In Memory Database (e.g., Redis, ehCache, Terracotta, Gigaspaces), Microservices (DropWizard/Spring Boot), Streaming applications using Confluent, Kafka, Big Data processing and orchestration tools (Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, etc.), and DevOps (Jenkins, Github, Terraform, etc.) is impressive. Santi is currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager at Flipkart, where he is driving the adoption of best practices and implementing cutting-edge technologies to deliver high-quality products. He has also worked in the past with companies like Optum and Homelane, where he served as Sr Architect - Principal Engineer - Engineering Leader and Principal Architect, respectively. Santi holds a Master of Technology (MTech) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) degree from Acharya Nagarjuna University. His relevant experience in the field is 21.62 years, and his tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Big Data, Microservices, DevOps