Dnyanesh Patil

About Dnyanesh Patil

Sr. Director of SW & Platform Engineering at Arlo Technologies, leading Platform Engineering, SRE, FinOps, and AI-enabled tooling across complex distributed systems. Currently focused on transforming the SDLC into ADLC (Agent Driven Lifecycle) with Claude/Cursor AI agents which is helping in shipping faster, at higher quality, with lower cost across distributed systems.Founding engineer and key architect @Arlo, joined as the 2nd team member and built it from the ground up into a global-scale system powering millions of smart devices and processing billions of API calls daily.• Shipped 50+ camera products to market by leading cross-functional teams end-to-end, establishing Arlo as a leader in the smart home industry.• Saved $20M+ annually (30% cloud cost reduction) through strategic FinOps and cloud optimization — with additional savings in progress.• Cut $2M+/year in licensing costs by designing and building an in-house audio/video streaming platform (RTSP, SIP, WebRTC), fully replacing Wowza with a more capable, cost-efficient solution.• Achieved 99.99% platform reliability by forming and leading a new high-performing SRE team with rigorous SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks, dramatically improving uptime and customer trust.• Accelerated engineering velocity with AI — drove org-wide adoption of Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Q, delivering measurable gains in developer productivity and release speed.• Re-architected monolith into domain-specific microservices, enabling independent scaling, faster deployments, and reduced time-to-market.• Built and launched a scalable IoT platform supporting millions of connected devices globally, enabling rapid product innovation and market expansion.• Pioneered CI/CD adoption via Harness, transforming release pipelines and reducing deployment risk across the engineering org.• Integrated AI/computer vision (person, animal, vehicle detection) into video products, creating meaningful product differentiation and increasing customer value.• Established Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) as the strategic hub for cloud transformation, engineering innovation, and operational excellence across the organization.• Deep AWS expertise across SageMaker, Bedrock, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and Kinesis — architecting for scale, resilience, and cost efficiency.• Built and scaled high-performing engineering teams with a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement — consistently recognized for leadership and mentorship impact.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Software & Platform Engineering

   Arlo Technologies, Inc.

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Leading Hands-On transformation in Software and Platform teams with AI—assisting tools like Cursor, Claude, Copilot into everyday workflows. The goal is simple: ship code faster with higher quality, stay reliable, and keep costs in check across complex distributed systems-Platform Engineering-SRE-AI Enabled Tooling-FinOps

Education

• Shivaji University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1998 — 2003

• Centre for development of Advance Computing

  Diploma in Advance Computing, Computer Software Engineering

  2004 — 2005

Skills

• Hadoop
• Servlets
• Jquery
• Databases
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Ejb
• Eclipse
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Spring Framework
• Ajax
• Spring
• Jsp
• Design Patterns
• Ooad
• Soap
• Json
• Xml
• Rest
• Core Java
• Nosql
• Scrum
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Javascript
• Uml
• Java
• Tomcat
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Jaxb
• Hibernate
• Struts
• Jms
• Oracle
• J2ee Web Services
• Mongodb
• Jdbc
• Distributed Systems
• Weblogic
• Jboss Application Server