# Krishna K. > Staff Software Engineer Location: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/krishnak My focus is on streamlining and securing the financial landscape through the development of advanced clearing and settlement applications at my current role. My expertise in React, Angular, GraphQL, Python and C++ has contributed to the delivery of robust, scalable solutions that uphold for reliability in global transactions. Previously, as a Lead Software Development Engineer at Confluera, my work on the Cloud-Native Detection and Response Platform played a crucial role in drastically reducing threat detection and response times. Committed to technological innovation, my goal is to continue enhancing the efficiency and security of payment systems to serve millions worldwide. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Visa Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States Payment Product Lead | Specializing in Clearing & Settlement Applications. As part of the Payment Product Development Team, I focus on innovating and enhancing clearing and settlement applications critical to financial transactions globally. My role involves contributing to and improving internal libraries, ensuring robust, scalable solutions that support VISA's worldwide operations. Passionate about driving efficiency and security in financial technologies, I am committed to advancing payment solutions that meet the needs of millions around the globe. ### Lead Software Development Engineer @ Confluera Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States Built-in Cloud-Native Detection and Response (CxDR) Platform that reduces the time to detect and respond to threats from months to days. Built-in threats progressing through infrastructure and displayed to which immediate attention need. ### Lead Engineer III @ The Standard Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Portland, Oregon This Project mainly involved investigation of the UI as well as refactoring of several backend methods like how we can enhance the performance with high security utilizing latest stack in the market. • Develop and conceptualize a comprehensive UI/UX design strategy for the Standard Retirement Application. • Created the frameworks and design systems to support all of our application initiatives; and conducted user research, test hypotheses to understand our users, and build beautiful and innovative ways for customers to interact with our brand with designing tools like sketch and adobe XD. • Acted as a lead front end engineer in rewriting the web application of standard utilizing Angular 8.2x, Node JS, Oracle DB & Bootstrap. To enhance the execution of SPA. • Utilized Node JS to setup the web servers and to integrate services and pulled dependencies that are required from the nexus repository. • Created forms and sessions using Node JS to store the user data and provide dynamic views based on the users plan id. • The application that are developed are off responsive with respect to tablets and smart phone devices as well. • Utilized Micro Services that are provided by backend engineers for RESTful API utilizing Spring Boot with Spring MVC (JSON format). • Adequately consumed Web services at various stages of the development like Insertion of data into tables, fetching data from the database with on click with a plan id. • Created few wireframes based on the requirement with Sketch and closely worked with business stack holders to characterize the project POC where we are at. • Moreover became acquainted with how we can improve the scalability by storing socket buffers on Redis an ### Software Developer and Integrator at USAA @ USAA Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Antonio, Texas Area USAA, a diversified financial services group of companies, is among the leading providers of financial planning, insurance, investments and banking products to members of the U.S. military and their families. The company's 11 million members rely on the convenience and accessibility of USAA financial products backed by award-winning service. ### Front End Web Developer @ Abbott Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, California Role: * Was hired on to help develop the new version of Abbott Labs’ flagship application which involved migrating their vanillaJS/JQuery application to modern web technologies such as Angularjs, Reactjs, and Nodejs and Create prototypes using Sketch. * Built UX designs based on requirements and validated with developer-built experiences relative * Focused mainly on Front-end develop utilizing Angular/React, HTML5, and CSS, with some back-end web services development with Nodejs. * Worked closely with both the project architect and designer to match work-flows to internal customer expectations, and collaborated with Java backend developers to define the JSON calls and responses for the Restful API. ### Web Developer @ Express Scripts Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Creating user interactive web pages that adhere to W3C and ADA standards using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery Design banking web applications with interactive features using JavaScript, AngularJS features such as data binding, services, routing, custom directives Making changes to the existing web applications and creating new components using Angular JS. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2024 – Jan 2028 ### Master's degree in Computer Science Murray State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kkommineni --- Source: https://flows.cv/krishnak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/krishnak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22