Saikumar Ragala
Senior Software Engineer — Backend Systems | Cloud and Engineering Systems Security
Hyderabad, IN.About
Highly accomplished Senior Software Engineer with nearly a decade of expertise in architecting and deploying hyperscale distributed systems and robust security platforms on Azure & AWS. Specializing in high-throughput, multi-tenant architectures, I have secured global Azure DevOps ecosystems, processing over 12B+ records daily and reducing threat detection from hours to minutes. Proven innovator in building AI agents for advanced security and enabling zero-failure, large-scale processing systems.
Work
Microsoft
|Senior Software Engineer (Security Platform)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Summary
Led the design and implementation of advanced security platforms for Microsoft's Azure DevOps and engineering systems, ensuring global scale and robust protection.
Highlights
Designed and implemented a distributed security scanning system, processing over 12B+ records/day across thousands of tenants to secure Microsoft Azure DevOps and engineering systems at scale.
Developed real-time detection pipelines for secrets exposure, misconfigurations, and access risks, significantly reducing threat detection time from hours to minutes.
Architected tenant isolation, partitioning, and retry strategies, achieving 99.99% processing success with zero cascading failures for large-scale systems.
Built AI-powered security evaluation agents for proactive risk detection in new feature releases across Azure, GitHub, and Azure DevOps, enhancing pre-deployment security posture.
Developed security remediation agents, automating fixes for ~1.2M misconfigurations across Microsoft services and reducing customer turnaround time by ~75%.
Reduced infrastructure costs by 30% through workload optimization and storage tiering, while building CI/CD pipelines that cut deployment failures by 80% with validation gates and auto-rollback.
Led a vendor team of 6 engineers, overseeing end-to-end delivery of security platform features from design to production, and mentored engineers on distributed systems and reliability patterns.
Defined and reviewed architecture for scalable, reliable, and secure system designs, improving team efficiency and code quality.
NexGen IoT Solutions (Client: ViewLift)
|Senior Software Engineer
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Summary
As a Founding Senior Software Engineer, developed and optimized scalable backend services and a configurable CMS platform for OTT streaming, significantly accelerating client onboarding and enhancing system performance.
Highlights
Spearheaded the creation of a configurable CMS platform, enabling OTT client onboarding in minutes compared to previous days/months.
Led the migration to a Kubernetes microservices architecture, improving system uptime from 96% to 99.9% and increasing release velocity by 10x through independent deployments and autoscaling.
Built scalable backend services on AWS to support high-demand OTT streaming platform workloads and developed analytics engines for user behavior, content performance, and streaming insights.
Containerized over 20 services and drove Kubernetes cost optimization through autoscaling and resource tuning, reducing infrastructure costs by ~25%.
CA Technologies
|Cloud Developer (Security Products)
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Summary
Designed and implemented cloud-native security solutions, including a serverless analysis platform and a compliance data lake, to enhance security and optimize cloud resource utilization for customer environments.
Highlights
Developed an AWS serverless security analysis platform for scanning customer cloud environments, resulting in a 60% reduction in infrastructure cost.
Designed and implemented a TB-scale compliance data lake for comprehensive security analytics and reporting.
Improved cloud resource utilization through optimization initiatives, reducing infrastructure waste by 20%.
Education
JNTU Hyderabad
B.Tech
Computer Science
Certificates
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Issued By
AWS
Docker Certified Associate
Issued By
Docker
AZ-900
Issued By
Microsoft Azure
Skills
Programming Languages
C#, Python, Node.js.
Artificial Intelligence
AI, LangGraph, AutoGen, OpenAI.
Distributed Systems
Distributed Systems, Multi-Tenant Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Reliability Engineering.
Cloud Security
Cloud Security, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation.
Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Docker.
Cost Optimization
Cost Optimization, Workload Optimization, Storage Tiering, Resource Tuning.