# Raja Krishnan

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rajakrishnan

* Software Engineer with 9 years of experience in Java, J2EE development


* Salesforce Certified Scrum Master - Very good knowledge of Agile principles and worked in the capacity of Scrum Master for 3 years


* Product Owner - Drive various features of the product from inception to release

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tenable
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Sysdig
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Lacework
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
* Leading CSPM and KSPM product lines of Lacework from SaaS platform
* Managing internship program for the org (Source, recruit, mentor, and performance review)

### Staff Software Engineer @ Lacework
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States
* Lead different features in the Lacework SaaS platform
* Mentor junior team members
* Involve in product design and process refinement with the Architects

### Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Mulesoft
* Lead the network connectivity features of Mulesoft Cloudhub
* Design and develop APIs for Transit Gateway, VPNs and VPCs to Mulesoft Cloudhub
* Develop compatibility matrix for Aws Transit gateway and other cloud providers and develop
a detailed test framework to ensure the successful product delivery

Coolan
* Design and develop APIs in telemetry and analytics platform for Salesforce infrastructure
* Provide health data and failure prediction for the hardware components in datacenter
* Design and develop new microservice architecture using Kafka and Kafka Streams
* Lead the Coolan single sign on efforts using SAML2 and OAuth2
* Design and implement the elastic cluster into the product for timeseries data analysis
* Leading efforts to make Coolan open source, collaborating with different open source teams
in salesforce, audit the code base

Salesforce Certified Scrum Master
* Aligning with SFDC agile principles, backlog grooming, facilitate retrospectives, resolve dependencies/conflicts

### Software Engineer @ Coolan
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo, CA
* Design and develop APIs in telemetry and analytics platform for Salesforce infrastructure
* Provide health data and failure prediction for the hardware components in datacenter
* Design and develop new microservice architecture using Kafka and Kafka Streams
* Lead the Coolan single sign on efforts using SAML2 and OAuth2
* Design and implement the elastic cluster into the product for timeseries data analysis
* Leading efforts to make Coolan open source, collaborating with different open source teams
in salesforce, audit the code base

### MTS @ VMware
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, California
* Automating vCenter, a management tool for virtual machines deployed in a data center / host
* Develop Test Document Specification / Automation plan from the feature design specification
* Develop chaos framework from scratch which is based on the idea of chaos monkey of Netflix
* Develop REST apis for chaos server and chaos engine (guide to trigger chaos, where & when)
* Implement chaos timeline UI (what chaos occurred when and where), based on TimelineJs


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago

### BE in Computer Science
Sri Sairam Engineering College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rajakrish
- Portfolio: http://rajakrish.com
- Portfolio: http://rajak.me/blog
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/rajazone

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Last updated: 2026-04-11