About

Venkat Ramana Sonnathi is a Principal Architect at Salesforce with a wealth of experience in designing and architecting large-scale, high-availability, and scalable platforms. With 28.88 years of relevant experience, he specializes in publishing, information retrieval, large-scale web and distributed systems, and platforms. Currently, Venkat Ramana Sonnathi serves as the Principal Software Architect at Salesforce, where he is responsible for driving cross-cutting changes and improvements across the organization, including CI/CD and release automation. He also mentors, coaches, and grows senior technical talent. Prior to joining Salesforce, Venkat Ramana Sonnathi worked as a Distinguished Architect at Intuit, where he led the design and architecture of a next-gen connected identity platform that helps users move seamlessly between Intuit's platform and external ecosystems. He also led the data ingestion and cataloging platform for Intuit Data Fabric and the architecture for delivering personalized messages to all customers and prospects across all channels and touchpoints. Additionally, he designed a robust and flexible content and privacy system for use across the ecosystem and led the design and architecture for a financial data platform to acquire data from disparate external data providers and expose the data as a set of APIs to product teams to enable a "Never Enter Data" experience to customers. Venkat Ramana Sonnathi has also worked as an Architect at Yahoo, where he was responsible for defining and driving architecture within the Advertising Products Group. He designed and architected a scalable, robust, and extensible platform for validating the quality of the ads submitted by advertisers. He also collaborated with the sciences team to improve the relevancy of ad listings shown on "Domain Match" (parked domain) sites and drove a continuous integration (CI) initiative and achieved commit and secondary builds across APG. Venkat Ramana Sonnathi holds a B.Tech in Mechanical and IEOR from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is skilled in senior software engineering, Salesforce, information retrieval, web, CI/CD, and integration.