Lead Product Engineer · 7+ yrs

Manoj Kumar Kothuru

Building resilient platforms, real-time analytics, and delightful developer experiences.

Focus

Platform Engineering

Cloud-native architecture, high-availability APIs, and modern data infrastructure spanning FastAPI, Node.js, and Snowflake ecosystems.

Experience Narrative

Objective

Craft reliable, calm software systems.

High performance · Design first · Leadership

Senior Software Engineer specializing in resilient full-stack platforms, distributed systems, and API ecosystems. Led multi-disciplinary teams to architect microservices, automate delivery, and elevate developer experience with clean design and measurable impact.

Experience

Impact cards

Lead Product Engineer

Harman International · Bengaluru, India

Nov 2021 – Present

Service Request Platform

  • Designed microservices platform handling 10k+ daily requests with 99.9% uptime.
  • Engineered OAuth2-secured APIs, reducing integration latency by 50%.
  • Led 7-engineer squad; GitHub Actions pipelines cut deployments by 60%.

Quality & Reliability

  • Championed Jest & PyTest suites to 85% coverage; bugs dropped by 45%.
  • Introduced Redis event streaming processing 1M+ events daily.
  • Optimized DB + caching flows cutting response times by 65%.

Analytics Engine & Dashboard

  • Built Python + React analytics stack atop Snowflake with realtime visuals.
  • Reduced data prep latency by 70% via streaming pipelines.
  • Served 1k+ concurrent users with sub-second API responses.

Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies · Chennai, India

Aug 2018 – Nov 2021

Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Shipped Django/Python monitoring fabric across 1000+ VDI instances.
  • Built predictive scaling intelligence improving footprint efficiency.
  • Authored ELK-backed microservices for telemetry ingestion.

Real-time Analytics Dashboard

  • Delivered React + Redux SPA surfacing live metrics to 500+ users.
  • Created Express APIs plus WebSockets for push updates.
Capabilities Grid

Education

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science & Engineering

JNTUA, Anantapuram

2014 – 2018

Technical Skills

Languages

Python JavaScript TypeScript PowerShell

Frameworks

FastAPI Django Flask React Next.js Express Pandas NumPy SQLModel

Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB Snowflake MySQL Redis

Cloud & Tools

AWS Azure Docker K8s Terraform Jenkins Git
Honors & Creds

Achievements

Automation

Built Microsoft Exchange Server automation suite used across delivery teams.

Recognition

Pragati Award (3x) & “Made a Difference” honor at Wipro for platform modernization.

Competitions

TCS CodeVita national qualifier.

Certifications

  • Python for Data Structures
  • The Complete SQL Bootcamp
  • Statistics for Data Science
  • Python for Data Science & ML
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