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Naveen Patibandla

Software Development Manager
Ashburn,VA

Summary

As a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, I lead the AWS CloudTrail Lake team, comprising 14 dedicated engineers, through the full lifecycle of large-scale projects. My role centers on steering projects from their initial concept to successful delivery, with a focus on strategic planning and execution. I excel in setting comprehensive project requirements, establishing clear Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), and aligning these with operational and annual goals (OP1, OP2). My responsibilities extend to intricate design planning, managing cross-functional dependencies, fostering robust customer relationships, and adeptly translating broad objectives into actionable milestones. My leadership is defined by a commitment to innovation, excellence, and a collaborative team environment that drives the AWS's mission forward.

With over 18 years in the tech field, I've spent the last 8 leading engineering teams to deliver impactful, customer-centric features. My journey began in hands-on roles as an architect and lead engineer where I honed my skills in design and development. This foundation has been crucial in my evolution into a leadership role, where I blend technical expertise with strategic vision to drive excellence in engineering.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services
04.2022 - Current

As the Software Development Manager for AWS CloudTrail Lake, I lead a team of 14 engineers while overseeing the product's core functionalities—collection, ingestion, and analytics of CloudTrail events, essential for security and auditing at peta bytes scale. My leadership in steering several pivotal deliverables has been crucial in driving CloudTrail Lake's adoption, significantly boosting its revenue to over $30 million in 2024, a remarkable achievement since its inception in 2022.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Innovative Feature Development: Spearheaded creation and deployment of Zero-ETL feature, streamlining data access across AWS services. This initiative boosted customer adoption by 25%, significantly improving user experience and contributing to product's success.
  • Revenue Growth: Directed introductionof CloudTrail Lake Import feature, facilitating seamless importation of historical Trail logs for ad-hoc audits and security analyses. This feature now accounts for roughly 30% of CloudTrail Lake’s revenue, marking a significant contribution to its financial success.
  • Cultural Leadership: Cultivated a culture of innovation within team, encouraging exploration of new technologies and methodologies. This approach led to significant advancements in product features and functionality.
  • Team Productivity and Development: Enhanced team productivity by personally mentoring engineers, developing tailored career growth plans that underline individual strengths and areas for improvement, and providing actionable feedback during one-on-one meetings.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with teams across functions and organizations to ensure seamless integration of new features, maintaining integrity and performance of existing systems.
  • Strategic Communication: Consistently communicated project progress and challenges to senior management through weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, enabling strategic decision-making based on comprehensive project insights.

Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services
10.2019 - 04.2022

I was responsible for leading a team of 8 engineers working across two different systems at Amazon Web Services (AWS). One system is responsible for collecting AWS customer usage metrics across all the AWS services by processing peta bytes of data to capture, aggregate and ingest metrics into a Data Warehouse. These are business critical metrics that help drive key decisions across AWS. The other system is responsible for automating the launch process of new services, new features on the 200+ services language SDK's ensuring proper linting, backward compatibility, code generation of various language SDK's.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Operational Excellence: Ensured comprehensive documentation of end-to-end requirements, aligning with AWS's operational goals and expectations.
  • Vision & Goal Setting: Articulated operational, short-term, and long-term business visions, setting yearly, quarterly, and sprint goals framed as OKRs.
  • Leadership Collaboration: Provided critical updates and engaged with AWS leadership during regular review sessions.
  • Customer & Team Feedback: Worked closely with customers and engineering peers to integrate system improvement feedback.
  • Engineer Development: Conducted weekly one-on-one meetings, focusing on engineer growth and development.
  • Recognition: Authored promotional documents (6-pagers) to highlight and reward exceptional performance.
  • Process Optimization: Identified and implemented operational improvements, significantly enhancing efficiency.
  • Security Best Practices: Collaborated with Application Security teams to fortify system security.
  • Agile Leadership: Directed scrum ceremonies to ensure the rigorous execution of project goals.
  • Design & Security Oversight: Reviewed and provided feedback on design documents, test plans, and security models to uphold high standards.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engaged in cross-team and organizational performance evaluations, ensuring cohesive standards and practices.

Software Engineering Manager

Capital One - Commercial Tech
08.2016 - 10.2019

Led and successfully managed a team of 8 engineers on the Commercial Card platform at Capital One. This digital platform offers a way for our customers to send payments to their suppliers in a safe and efficient way using Capital One Virtual Card.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Innovative Feature Development: Led goal-driven development of key features, significantly contributing to platform's success in processing $2 billion payments.
  • Stakeholder Presentations: Demonstrated commercial card application's capabilities to VPs, MVPs, and CTOs, showcasing project success and strategic value.
  • Advanced Feature Implementation: Directed development of advanced fund, pay file, and supplier file processing features, handling transactions over $2 billion.
  • Efficiency Improvements: Implemented technical solutions that markedly improved platform's performance and user experience, setting new standards in application design and functionality.
  • Continuous Improvement: Regularly evaluated development processes, advocating for strategies to expedite completion times and enhance overall product quality.
  • Resource Optimization: Drove high-level strategic planning across multiple projects to optimize resource use and accelerate development timelines.
  • Collaborative Leadership: Collaborated with engineering leaders to strategically plan and coordinate development efforts, achieving critical milestones.
  • Mentorship: Acted as hands-on leader, providing exceptional guidance to new associates through 'lunch and learn' sessions.
  • Talent Management: Played pivotal role in mid-year and year-end talent reviews, performance management, and cross-calibration sessions, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Performance Optimization: Developed a caching architecture and implemented routing and filtering with Spring Cloud & Netflix ZUUL, significantly enhancing application performance and stability.
  • Microservices Architecture: Led creation of microservices using Spring Boot, REST, AWS, and Docker, further improving system efficiency and scalability.
  • Monitoring and Performance: Established application performance monitoring using DataDog, ensuring high availability and reliability.

Technical Architect

Perficient - Blue Shield Of California - San Francisco
07.2013 - 08.2016

Perficient was rebuilding the Member Portal application for Blue Shield Of California and creating different common services that are reusable and consumed by the Member Portal and Mobile applications.

  • Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
  • Worked in agile team in different design and development activities.
  • Analyze existing Java/J2EE legacy application to extract business logic for member portal rebuild.
  • Created design documentation with sequence diagrams for new services based on analysis from legacy application.
  • Extract business rules from existing member portal code and complete rule analysis document from the rules extracted.
  • Led extensible architecture of accumulator rules responsible for calculating the deductible, Out Of Pocket expenses.
  • Worked on several REST services developed using Spring that are currently being consumed by 4.5 million members of BlueShield of CA.
  • Provided SQL standards and best practices document that was used as guideline for writing SQL queries across the application.
  • Ensure solutions, address performance requirements and availability and services meet different SLA set forth by client
  • Supported several clients to consume and integrate with REST services.

Lead Technical Consultant

Perficient - Premier Healthcare Inc - Charlotte
02.2011 - 07.2013

Premier was implementing a web based solution that enhances the capabilities of the existing safety surveillor to provide the infection preventionist with the real time data and tools needed to fight the battle against Healthcare associated infections. The system can be used to detect clusters and outbreaks with automatic alerts send to the preventionist, it can be used to immediately notify the infection preventionist of potential problems, facilitating rapid intervention and detection.

Responsibilities:

  • Worked closely with the business analysts to transform the functional requirements to technical requirements.
  • Worked as a Java developer in an Agile team in development activities focused on health care applications
  • Analyze and understand business requirements and provide sound technical solutions
  • Developed REST and SOAP web services using Spring-WS API
  • Developed and managed maven project files
  • Participate in code reviews with team members.
  • Extensively wrote queries based on hibernate Criteria and HQL.
  • Provide staff and users with assistance solving development problems.
  • Created the design document and implementation guidelines.

Lead Technical Consultant

Perficient - United Guaranty - Greensboro
07.2011 - 10.2011

United Guaranty did not have any fraud detection and prevention system capabilities during Mortgage Insurance application origination for delegated or electronically submitted applications. To improve the fraud detection process during origination, United Guaranty is implementing the project that will establish automated ordering of reports, leverage storing of vendor data for use in future decisioning models.

Responsibilities:

• Transforming business requirements and functional design into technical solutions into Ilog technical specifications.

• Create Object model for ILog used in the Dynamic XOM implementation.

• Prepare and implement rule packaging design used to group the rules based on the decision.

• Create technical specification document with the design and implementation strategies.

• Author business rules, rule templates, decision tables, and create rule flow.

• Customize the BOM to XOM mapping by creating virtual members in the BOM.

• Configure the Rule Team Server, Rule Execution Server and Decision Validation Server on Websphere application server

• Used Rule Team server to synchronize rules, create, manage and deploy Rule Apps to Rule Execution Servers on different environments.

• Created the DVS project for DVS template creation and used this template for unit testing.

• Supported the QA and UAT testing efforts

Java Consultant

IBM, UCMS
04.2007 - 02.2011

IBM was implementing the Unemployment Compensation Modernization System for the State of Pennsylvania in JavaEE and developed a web based solution for DLI UC legacy system that helped the ~5 million employees during the 2008 financial crisis file their unemployment claims.

Responsibilities:.

  • Reviewed and analyzed data model for developing the Presentation layer and Value Objects
  • Used MVC Framework extensively for Controller components and view components.
  • Developed the business components (Functional Managers), which would have the implementation of business logic using the use cases and sequence diagrams.
  • Used Hibernate Object Relational Mapping tool for Data Persistence and retrieval.
  • Involved in writing Hibernate mapping documents for persistence classes.
  • Involved in developing webservices using SOAP protocol with IBM-JAX RPC
  • Implemented MVC, Factory, Service and DAO J2EE design patterns as part of the application development.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

State University of New York
New Paltz, NY
09.2005 - 2006.12

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
India
08.2001 - 2005.05

Skills

Leadership, Team Building, Project Management, Agile, Requirements, Process Improvements

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Certification

Sun Certified Java Developer

Timeline

Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services
04.2022 - Current

Software Development Manager

Amazon Web Services
10.2019 - 04.2022

Software Engineering Manager

Capital One - Commercial Tech
08.2016 - 10.2019

Technical Architect

Perficient - Blue Shield Of California - San Francisco
07.2013 - 08.2016

IBM Certified Operational Decision Manager Developer

06-2012

Lead Technical Consultant

Perficient - United Guaranty - Greensboro
07.2011 - 10.2011

Lead Technical Consultant

Perficient - Premier Healthcare Inc - Charlotte
02.2011 - 07.2013

Sun Certified Java Developer

08-2007

Java Consultant

IBM, UCMS
04.2007 - 02.2011

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

State University of New York
09.2005 - 2006.12

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
08.2001 - 2005.05
Naveen PatibandlaSoftware Development Manager