Venkat Challagulla
Senior Director | Global Public Cloud Engineering Leader | PhD (AI/ML) | 11 Publications | 500+ Citations | 10+ Multi-Cloud Certifications | Conference Speaker | Adjunct Lecturer
- Role
- Digital Engineering Management Senior Director at NTT DATA North America
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venkat Challagulla
Senior Technology Leader with demonstrated ability to inspire and lead large global delivery and agile engineering and development teams. At NTT DATA Services, I am responsible for providing strategic leadership, driving team growth and overseeing the global delivery of our AI-enhanced Public Cloud Engineering Services across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. My unique cross-disciplinary expertise in cloud architectures, software engineering, and ML enables me to build agile, high-performance and innovation-driven engineering teams that harness the power of Gen AI, SRE, DevOps, and AIOps in their everyday work and to deliver transformational business outcomes at scale to our large enterprise customer base.I got my MBA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Dallas. I published eleven research papers, with 540+ citations, in machine learning, statistical analysis, and reliability- Dissertation: A machine learning-based approach for dynamic reliability assessment of mission critical software systems.Specialties: Digital transformation, multi-cloud computing, enterprise architectures, devOps, SRE, automation, microservices, containers, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learningCertifications: • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer • Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer • Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer • Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer • TOGAF 9 Certification • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) • Red Hat Portfolio: FoundationalGoogle L400 Gen AI Advanced Skill Badge: Build and Deploy a Generative AI Solution Using a RAG Framework
Experience
Digital Engineering Management Senior Director
Jul 2021 — Present · Plano, TX, US
Responsible for Global delivery of our AI-Enhanced Cloud Core Public Cloud Engineering Services.• Scale Centers of Excellence around AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Hybrid Cloud, Operating Systems, Databases, DevOps and SRE.• Guide the vision, roadmap and enhancement of our unique and transformative Hybrid Adaptive Cloud Platform.• Partner with global cross-functional teams to build new offerings, financial models, SOWs, and drive continuous process/margin improvements.
Education
Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2018 — 2020
The University of Texas at Dallas
PhD, Computer Science
2007
The University of Texas at Dallas
MS, Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering
2003
Skills
- Data Mining
- Cloud Computing
- Enterprise Software
- Integration
- Algorithms
- Eclipse
- Agile Methodologies
- Hibernate
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