Sawan Kuntala

About Sawan Kuntala

Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience in Startups and large global firms. 14 years of experience with managing people and 10+ years of experience with building large teams. Led teams and drove solutions in the domains of Storage, FinTech, Payments, Food Delivery, Cloud Native solutions & Customer Engagement. Proven record of delivering solutions using Distributed Systems, ML & Artificial Intelligence. Takes pride in building world class engineering teams.6+ years of experience with hiring Engineering Managers. Proven track record of creating an engineering culture that retains the best of the engineers and motivates them to deliver impactful projects.Successfully delivered Autonomous Solutions using ML/AI at Google, Uber & Infocrunch.

Experience

1. Engineering Leader

   Google

   Oct 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Leading the GCS Data Mobility charter at Google Cloud in Hyderabad and Singapore, powering planet-scale data movement for a foundational storage system that manages exabytes of data and millions of QPS. Our mission is to solve the challenges of rapid data growth and enabling massive AI workloads by providing fast, seamless, petabyte-scale data mobility. Moving ~4 EiB of data a month for over customers, Data Mobility team plays a critical role in accelerating customer onboarding and enabling global enterprises to leverage Google’s industry-leading AI and ML capabilities.

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

• Oregon State University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

Skills

• Java Enterprise Edition
• Ext Js
• Team Building
• Big Data
• Oracle Database
• Scala
• Groovy
• Functional Programming
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Flex
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• Apache Flume
• Angular Js
• React.js
• Node.js
• Mongodb
• Asterisk
• Spring Framework
• Hibernate