Venkat Sadhineni

About Venkat Sadhineni

Lead Site Reliability Engineer | SRE Expert in Kubernetes, PCF, GCP & Performance Optimization |Specialized in building agentic solutions | Charles Schwab Challenger Award Winner | ex-CognizantSenior Site Reliability & Performance Engineer with an Information Technology background and a proven track record of maintaining 99.9% availability for high-traffic financial platforms. Expert in blending SRE practices, Performance Engineering. Specialist in optimizing the digital customer journey—from secure login to real-time trading—through advanced automation and proactive observability.Core Competencies• SRE & Performance: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Performance Engineering, FMEA, Stress & Elasticity Testing, 99.9% Availability Management.• Cloud & Containers: AWS (CloudFormation), GCP, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Terraform.• Observability & Monitoring: Splunk, AppDynamics, Data dog, New Relic, ThousandEyes, Adobe Analytics, JVM Profiling.• AI & Automation: Google Vertex AI (GenAI Chatbots), Python, Java.Net, PHP, Angular, Jenkins (CI/CD).• Testing Tools: LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, SOASTA, SOAP UI.• Network & Edge: Akamai CDN, Content Delivery Optimization.

Experience

1. Lead Software Developer - Sre

   Charles Schwab

   Sep 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Platform Reliability Engineering: Drive the uptime and performance of Schwab.com and the Schwab Mobile app, utilizing Splunk and AppDynamics to monitor system health and ensure high availability for millions of retail investors.• Infrastructure & Scaling: Manage large-scale deployments on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and GCP, optimizing resource allocation to handle massive traffic spikes during market volatility and peak trading hours.• Incident Response & Automation: Reduced MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) by developing automated self-healing scripts and proactive alerting frameworks, minimizing impact on customer-facing financial services.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Adam's Engineering College

  Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

  2001 — 2006

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, Information technology

  2001 — 2006

Skills

• Soa Testing
• Performance Engineering
• Splunk
• Load Testing
• Mysql
• Python
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Testing
• Qtp
• Php
• System Testing
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Test Management
• Loadrunner
• Hp Qtp
• Test Strategy
• Newrelic
• Hp Business Availability Center
• Hp Quality Center
• Sdlc
• Jmeter
• Performance Testing