# Kiran Bachu > Principal Architect | Cloud Infrastructure | Observability & Reliability | Distributed Systems | 15+ Patents | Ex-VMWare | Ex-Dell EMC Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kiranbachu Principal Architect, hands-on and innovative Technical Leader with 15+ issued patents specializing in the convergence of high-scale cloud infrastructure, observability, and distributed systems. Proven track record of navigating complex cloud provider constraints (AWS/Azure) and modernizing legacy architectures into resilient, AI-ready microservices. Active researcher and builder in Agentic AI. Patents include novel methods for high-throughput data deduplication, serverless architecture, disaster recovery, and more. Agentic AI & LLMOps(Active Research): Architecting stateful multi-agent systems using LangGraph, Python FastAPI, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to bridge LLMs with enterprise data tools via RAG. Observability-Driven Infrastructure: Designing global telemetry strategies using VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Cortex, new-relic; specialized in anomaly detection and automated remediation (MTTR reduction). Cloud Platform Engineering: Expert in Multi-region AWS/Azure architecture, Kubernetes (EKS, Karpenter, KEDA), Infrastructure-as-code and FinOps strategies to optimize unit economics of high-throughput systems. Distributed Storage & Data: Deep background in NVMe SSD object storage, deduplication, and file systems (NFS/NAS). Tech Stack AI/Modern Stack: Python (FastAPI), LangGraph, LangChain, OpenAI SDK, MCP, Vector DBs (RAG). Cloud/Infra: AWS (Lambda@Edge, CloudFront, EKS), Azure, Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD), Docker. Systems/Data: Python, Go, C++, Kafka, MongoDB, Snowflake, Redis, VictoriaMetrics, prometheus. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Highspot Jan 2022 – Present High-Scale Infrastructure Delivery: Architected and launched a secure, high-9s reliability CDN (CloudFront/S3/EKS) and scaled content ingestion/processing pipelines; delivered 60% reduction in P95 page load latency product-wide while ensuring strict compliance with EU data residency and regional constraints. End-to-End Observability & Reliability Engineering: Engineered a global observability strategy for CDN and Lambda infrastructure, architecting high-cardinality telemetry pipelines to enable real-time anomaly detection. This initiative optimized cache hit ratios and delivered a validated, product-wide reduction in page load latencies. Strategic AWS Partnership: Collaborated with AWS Solution Architects to architect a secure, high-performance Global CDN, focusing on IAM roles, cache hit optimization, and regional compliance (EU-restricted PoPs). Product-Minded Platform Architecture: Delivered a self-service research and analytics framework connecting core backend services to Snowflake, unblocking critical NPS and customer feedback workflows for non-engineering stakeholders. ### Principal Engineer/Architect @ Datto Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 High-Cardinality Metrics Pipeline: Architected a high-throughput telemetry pipeline using VictoriaMetrics to ingest and monitor millions of data points per second across public and private clouds. Cloud Modernization: Technical lead for re-engineering monolithic services into backend microservices on Microsoft Azure to power the "Cloud Continuity" SaaS offering. ### Sr Staff Software Engineer @ Stellus Technologies(Samsung Innovation Center) Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California Cloud Replication Strategy & Architecture: Spearheaded the cloud-native strategy for a high-performance distributed storage platform; architected and implemented a core replication engine for S3 and Azure. Stateless Distributed Systems Design: Contributed to the development of a decoupled, stateless architecture featuring NFS front-end nodes and a distributed Object Storage backend, optimized for Key-Value storage over NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF). Performance Engineering: Optimized data paths between stateless front-end nodes and NVMe-based backends, ensuring the platform met extreme throughput and low-latency requirements for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. ### Sr Software Engineering Manager @ VMware Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA vCenter Core Platform: Led the engineering team responsible for the API platform and inventory management for 1000s of ESX hosts and exabytes of data. Hybrid Cloud: Drove enhancements for VMware Cloud on AWS and facilitated vSphere integration with Kubernetes. ### Sr Software Engineering Manager / Architect @ Dell EMC Jan 2003 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA 15+ issued patents in storage and data protection (e.g., large-scale VMware environments, Deduplication, serverless, data stream, disaster recovery, cyber security resilience,...); architected the microservices-based policy engine. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Kakatiya University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kiran-bachu --- Source: https://flows.cv/kiranbachu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kiranbachu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12