Venu Karnati

About Venu Karnati

Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and automating resilient, cloud-native infrastructure. Proven expertise in building highly available microservices ecosystems using Kubernetes, Python,and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines. Passionate about enhancing system reliability and developer velocity.MLOps certified, with specialized knowledge in deploying and monitoring AI/ML models at scale. Skilled in creating robust, automated pipelines for model versioning, retraining, and drift detection to ensure system reliability and developer velocity.

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Engineer

   Workday

   Mar 2020 — Present · Pleasanton, CA, US

   Architected and implemented highly available and scalable solutions for critical Workday Microservices, achieving and maintaining 99.99% uptime through sophisticated monitoring, auto scaling, and self-healing mechanisms using Kubernetes and Python.• Spearheaded the design and implementation of a large-scale data migration strategy, creating Python-based automation that successfully migrated petabytes of critical customer data from private data centers to the public cloud(AWS, GCP) with zero service downtime.• Engineered a fully automated CI/CD pipeline using Helm, Argo Workflows, and Ansible, reducing infrastructure provisioning and complex service deployment times from hours to minutes.• Designed and developed mission-critical Python microservices communicating via Kafka to automate the entire Workday tenant lifecycle, including creation, configuration, and resource management.• Led cross-functional root cause analysis (RCA) for high-severity production outages, delivering detailed post-mortems that drove the implementation of preventative measures and enhanced system reliability.• Developed a comprehensive configuration management framework using Ansible, creating custom modules and reusable playbooks to standardize and automate the setup of hundreds of production servers, eliminating manual errors.• Actively contributed to the open-source Kubernetes Python client, resolving critical bugs and implementing feature enhancements that were directly leveraged to improve Workday\'s internal container orchestration platform.

Education

• University of Central Missouri

  Master's degree, Computer Science