# Ranjith Kanakasabha

> Lead Software Engineer | Expert in Cloud Computing & SaaS | Championing DevOps Culture | Cloud Infrastructure Architect | Mentor & Thought Leader

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ranjithkanakasabha

Accomplished Software Engineer & Engineering Leader with a proven record of designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native, and data-driven systems. Experienced across multi-cloud environments, big data, and real-time processing. Combines deep technical expertise with strong team leadership, guiding engineers in implementing microservices, DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, and TDD best practices. Skilled at defining architecture strategies, driving technical excellence, and aligning engineering outcomes with business goals to accelerate innovation and impact.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Proofpoint
Jan 2019 – Present
Cloud Architectures, Steaming Data Pipeline for Analytics, Cloud Native Micro Services, Solutions Architecture using key AWS Technologies, Terraform Automation, Email Security/ DLP Data Ingestion and Query Services, Docker and Kubernetes, Message and Stream Processing, Search Indexing Frameworks

### Staff Software Engineer @ MapR Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Architected, designed, and developed a distributed systems software for managing data platform developed to run AI and analytics and other data intensive workloads. 
- Designed and implemented several critical services like API Server, Service discovery, Authentication, Metering, Configuration Management, MapR JSON DB API, Chargeback Manager and Cluster Administration.
- Build log and metrics monitoring framework for clusters using ELK stack, batch and real time processors by collecting and analyzing data from a variety of data sources.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Responsible for writing multi-cloud toolkit and developed cloud adaptors to support VMware, AWS and Azure environments. 
- Designed and implemented backend services using REST APIs to manage L4-L7 network services like software-based load balancer, routers, firewalls and monitoring network layers, provisioning cloud resources, configuration management, lifecycle operations etc.,
- Implemented CRUD operations, pagination, sorting and filters to query data efficiently from MongoDB.

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2005 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed build tools, performance tools, infrastructure automation, cloud connectors and other toolkits for improving engineering productivity.
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive automation framework and SDK’s for VMkernel teams.  
- Collaborated with the development teams to integrate automation tests with the CI/CD pipelines accelerating frequency releases and enhancing overall product quality.
- Identified and implemented process improvements to optimize team productivity. Participated in technical interview panel & university career fairs to help recruit strong engineers for the company.

### Member Of Technical Staff Intern @ VMware
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Engineer @ Dell
Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Bangalore, India


## Education
### M.S in Computer Science
Western Michigan University

### Internet Programming and Development
UCSC Silicon Valley Extension


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ranjithkrr

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Last updated: 2026-04-12