Avinash Kolluru

About Avinash Kolluru

Experienced in building and leading high-impact engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments. Served as part of the early founding teams at Traceable (now a part of Harness) and AppDynamics India, driving core product development and scaling engineering from the ground up.Proven expertise in architecting and engineering large-scale, distributed data platforms and high-throughput micro-services. Deep experience in building resilient, cloud-native systems within the modern DevOps and Kubernetes ecosystem. Strong domain knowledge in cybersecurity, with a focus on WAAP (Web Application and API Protection), including API threat detection, traffic analysis, and runtime enforcement at scale.Passionate about exploring the evolving landscape of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agentic AI—focusing on driving operational efficiency and unlocking innovative product integrations.Specialties: Google Cloud Platform, Cloud native technologies, Distributed/micro services, Java, GraphQL, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Spark, Kubernetes, J2EE, RxJava, Android Application Development, Python, Spark, MCP(Model Context Protocol), Databases/Stores(Apache Pinot, Mongodb, Oracle(SQL/PL-SQL), MySql, Couchbase, ElasticSearch)

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Harness

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Driving the expansion of product capabilities into the emerging Security for AI domain, with a focus on securing LLM-powered applications- Directly leading a small cross-functional team to build a global natural language assistant/chatbot using MCP and AutoGen framework that can query across all Traceable data sources—Inventory, Testing, and Protection—and return insights, preserving conversational context and linking to deeper investigations- Led a high-performing cross-geographical/functional engineering team to enhance the API Security product, expanding it into a comprehensive WAAP(Web Application & API Protection) offering that includes Bot/Fraud Detection & Prevention that achieved recognition as a leaderin the cloud WAAP space by SecureIQ (an independent, third-party cybersecurity solution validation and advisory provider), surpassing decade old competitors- Part of multiple company wide initiatives like setting up incident mgmt/on-call processes, new hire onboarding, campus recruitment, conducting and judging hackathons

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  B.E. Computer Science, Computer Science

  2003 — 2008

Skills

• Sql
• Quality Center
• Hibernate
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Postgresql
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Mobile Applications
• Agile Testing
• Web Services
• Python
• Scrum
• Jsp
• Spring Framework
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Celery
• Core Java
• Software Project Management
• Soa
• Selenium
• Rabbitmq
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Android Development
• Android
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Eclipse
• Business Intelligence
• Servlets
• Data Warehousing
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Enterprise Architecture
• Jdbc
• Agile Methodologies
• Requirements Gathering
• Spring
• Pl/Sql