# Srikanth Hugar

> Principal Software Engineer at Oracle

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/srikanthhugar

* Principal Engineer with over 13+ years of experience in Architecture, Design and Implementation varied Products and Services from concept to design, execution and operations.
* Currently working for OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) software-defined networking services at scale supporting thousands of customers running mission critical workloads.
* Experience working with and managing external partners/customers. 
* Experience in building large scale distributed systems for multiple Products and Services. 
* Experience in Architect, design and implementation of products/features for multiple services/applications. 
* Development experience in RESTful APIs, horizontal scalability, micro services, high availability, high scalability, Cloud computing and Distributed systems. 
* Experience in writing software in multiple languages, Java, Python and Go.
* Strong algorithmic and problem-solving skills 
* Designed dozens of software solutions driving continuous improvement to processes, systems, workflow and customer responsiveness.      
* Involved multiple architecture decisions/discussions within organization, with partners and customers.
* Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, DevOps, and/or continuous integration/delivery.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer / OCI - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure @ Oracle
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Architect-ed, designed and developed software-defined networking services at scale supporting thousands of customers running mission critical workloads.
* Key person in designing and implementing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect service.
* Development of various platform services like cloud networking, Oracle FastConnect, Cloud migration services.
* Development of multiple services and applications using multiple languages, Java, Python and Go.
* Involved multiple architecture decisions/discussions within organization, with partners and customers.
* Supported the service in production.
* Shared knowledge, expertise and mentor engineers.
* Developed proof of concept technologies that can be transitioned to product teams.
* Created compelling applications or work-flows to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ideas.
* Built and maintained Docker container clusters, Linux, Bash, GIT and Docker. Utilized  Docker for the run-time environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy. 
* Introduced several tools/frameworks and developed several reusable components to ease the development and improve code quality
* Ramping up product teams during the product effectuation phase and work with them closely.
Involved with shipping multiple products and services

### Senior Staff Engineer / Unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) @ Polycom
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India
* Design and implementation of REST API for Core Platform.
* Architect, design and implementation of products/features for CloudAxis Suite, Platform Director and Enhanced   Content Sharing Suite.
* Introduction of java frameworks to enable server side services and generic framework developments to ease  back-end development 
* Key person in designing and implementing social integration platform (Integrating with Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, etc.) for Cloud-Axis product.
* Architect, design and development of a large scale products.
* Leading without title - small teams to deliver end-to-end products/features.
* Proposed new technologies like OSGi, Ansible, etc. Prototypes, developed and released.
* Lead a small team that designed and implemented the proposed prototypes for products.
* Involved in all kinds of QA activities (test case preparation, test scripting, random, regression, stress and performance testing, shipping).

### Technical Lead  / IOT, M2M, NMS, EMS @ Nokia Networks
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru Area, India
* Building Big Data/No-SQ applications prototypes using Apache Hadoop/Storm/RC File/ etc.
* Introduction of java frameworks to enable server side services and generic framework developments to ease back-end development.
* Key person in designing and implementing Big Data and No-SQL related technologies.
* Provided configuration changes on several third-party frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, HIVE, Storm, etc. to improve throughput and also made several code changes to have low latency.
* Support Pre-Sales in Solution Proposals, Product Evaluations, and Technical Presentations to customers and POC demos.
* Development of various platform services like inventory, alarming, agent management, device management,
* Complex event processing service.
* Supporting Third party developers for integrating different devices and development of
applications using the platform interfaces. 
* Evaluation of different NoSQL databases like Apache CouchDB, Apache Hadoop HBase and Apache Cassandra


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University Vishweshwaraya College of Engineering


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12