ta Venkat Lolla
Venkat Lolla

Venkat Lolla

Senior Director, Architecture

  • email:venkatalolla@gmail.com

Professional Summary

  • IT Professional with 22 years of progressive experience in IT Architecture, software engineering, technology leadership, product development, DevOps engineering, cloud computing, business intelligence & analytics and focus on next generation cloud deployment and streaming architectures.
  • Currently focused on cloud architecture and engineering unusually complex legacy system using Modern Data Platform, Cloud Enablement and provide technical guidance and solutions that are highly creative work in an Agile and DevOps software development environment.
  • Microservice Architect/Cloud Engineer with expertise in multi-year strategy to migrate enterprises to microservices architecture, Streaming Platform using Emerging Technologies and other opensource software’s interacting through a combination of REST or message brokers with the large teams of up to 100+ members.
  • Spearhead Innovation Team; engineered the most challenging industry solutions like Pay with Points Integrations, Mobile Payments and Tokenization, HealthCare Platform Acceleration strategy using cutting edge technical solutions.
  • Expertise with problem triage, categorization of enhancement, root cause analysis and ability to duplicate a problem and Lead the team during the crisis.
  • Strong understanding of Agile, SAFe and Kanban and a Certified Scrum Master, Test-driven development and CI/CD, a Certified Kubernetes App Developer with expertise in Cloud based deployments, build and deployment utilities, and best coding practices.
  • Experienced people manager in managing global teams using on-shore, off-shore, and matrix team’s model.


Promotes the adoption and usage of emerging technologies: Kubernetes, Knative, Serverless, AWS, Azure AKS, GCP, Anthos, Dockers, confluent.io, Envoy, isito, CloudFoundry, Spring Integration, Apache Kafka, Kafka Stream, Spring Boot, Streaming API, Apigee, Kong, gRPC, OpenAPI, GoLang, Node.js, Splunk, prometheus, Grafana , Kotlin JVM, Java 8, Gradle, Jenkins, GraphQL, Python, CockroachDB, Cassandra, Postgres, MongoDb and ElasticSearch.

Work Experience

Senior Director, Architecture

UnitedHealthGroup

April 2022 - Present

  • Implement and deliver architectures that reduce cost and follow modern technical architectures.
  • Responsible to assist in transforming and architecting products in a growing Optum Clinical Technology organization.

    • Expert, Data Engineering & Architecture

    McKinsey & Company

    March 2021 - March 2022

  • Data Engineering Expert and Integration Architect responsible to architect, develop, implement and migration of on-prem integration solutions to Enterprise Cloud Data Integration Platform by providing Architectural and Technology Leadership to help accelerate the cloud-first strategy.
  • Expert in data engineering, integration architecture, cloud data platforms, Streaming Data, Confluent Cloud, GraphQL and API Gateways, responsible to take part in an effort to build next-gen data platforms on the cloud to enable rapid data access and incubate emerging technologies.

    • Director/Sr Principal Engineer, Cloud & Data Streaming Platform

    UnitedHealthGroup

    April 2016 - March 2021

    Venkat is a Technology Sr Principal Engineer working as a Sr Director of Data Engineering - Data Streaming & Cloud Analytics Platform at Optum Technology;
    Expertise in Product Architecture, IT Strategy, Technology Roadmap, Engineering Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Business Analytics, API Strategy & Development, Cloud Enablement and instrumented in building, managing and retaining high performance agile teams that have adopted modern Data Architecture and CI/CD Practices.
    Currently focusing on leading a teams tasked to engineer and deliver health care platform modernization.

    • Engineering unusually complex legacy services to modernize into data streaming platform/cloud enablement and unlocking full breadth of data, at scale, for both analytics and transactions.
    • Provides technology solutions that are highly creative work in an Agile and DevOps software development environment influencing development team to build and accelerate Data Platform by modernization and mobilization healthcare data.
    • Migrating legacy data pipeline to Streaming Data Platform using modern data engineering and building high scalable and resilient GoLang Streaming Processors and APIs.
    • Mentor team members and provide technical guidance, Product roadmap to engineers and influence to achieve results, works effectively with senior management.
    • Responsible for materially contributing to advancing the state of the art of Quantum Computing in some strategic and/or tactical ways through research, experimentation, study, collaboration, and presenting.

    Advanced Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture & Workplace Solutions

    MassMutual Insurance Group

    October 2015 - March 2016

    Technology Leadership role to evaluate,architect, engineer, direct and introduce cloud architecture, API management strategy using Amazon AWS and Apigee.

    Actively engaged in crafting Swagger API’s and building microservices using Node.js and SpringBoot.

    Lead Solution Architect, Solution Architecture and Design

    Dignity Health

    May 2015 - September 2015

    Responsible for delivering the architecture designs, develop and implement total application solutions based on the business requirements of the Dignity Health.

    Part of Solution Architecture team to create, implement, and support IT portfolios and platforms which accelerate the transformation of Enterprise Technology Services as a key enabler to Dignity Health’s growth strategy and fulfillment of Dignity Health’s mission.

    Sr Architect/ Sr Engineer/ Technical Lead

    Cognizant Technology Solutions

    October 2002 - May 2015

    Technology Leadership role in building American express Digital Loyalty Platforms using J2ee, Cloud architecture and Digital API’s Development strategy for everyday use points for charges, pay with points for transfer partner integration with Airline, Travel, Retail and Banking.

    Key Skills

    • Software Engineering
    • Technology Leadership
    • Engineering Management
    • Technology Evaluation
    • Data Engineering
    • Cloud Enablement
    • Micro-services
    • Enterprise Architecture
    • Solution Architecture
    • Business, Application, Technical & Information Architecture
    • Resource, Budget and Estimation

    Certifications

    Linux Foundation

    Certified Kubernetes App Developer

    Scrum Alliance

    Certified Scrum Master

    Sun Microsystems

    Sun Certified Java Programmer

    Education

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    MITProfessionalX - Internet of Things: Roadmap to a Connected World

    MITProfessionalX - Tackling the Challenges of Big Data

    Colorado State Univeristy, College of Business

    Graduate Certificate, Data Science & Business Intelligence

    Andhra University

    Master of Business Administration, Finance and MIS