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title: "Guruprasad Rao - Engineering Manager (Consultant) in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Guruprasad Rao, Sr. Cloud Architect & Engineering Leader | Live AWS→Azure • Estate Rewrites • LangChain / Agentic AI | Multi-squad delivery based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and deepseek."
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# Guruprasad Rao on Tal

## Headline

Sr\. Cloud Architect & Engineering Leader \| Live AWS→Azure • Estate Rewrites • LangChain / Agentic AI \| Multi\-squad delivery

## About

I walk into estates everyone is afraid to touch — bloated codebases, fragile platforms, migrations that “cannot fail” — and I take ownership\. I do not decorate broken systems\. I challenge them, cut them to what is essential, and lead teams through the uncomfortable rewrite — live, at scale, with production on the line\. What I do • Large\-estate modernisation & rewrite — diagnose rot, prove one vertical slice, strangler\-fig the rest \(DDD, design patterns, microservices patterns\) • Live cloud migration — AWS → Azure with zero\-downtime cutover, IaC, managed Kafka/search/cache, active\-active / DR • High\-throughput distributed systems — hot\-key/cache redesign, event\-driven flows, single\-digit ms where it matters • AI that ships — LangChain, agentic & multi\-agent APIs, Azure AI / RAG\-ready pipelines, human\-in\-the\-loop — inside real service boundaries, not slide decks • Delivery leadership — multi\-squad programmes, Design–Develop–Run, architecture runway, CI/CD as habit Proof, not theatre • Tesco order estate: \~500M API hits/day • live AWS→Azure • Java 11→25 • \~500k → \~100k LOC • \~100B documents / \~100TB\+ class archival moves via Azure Data Factory • GE Renewables: \~30k turbines • APIs from \~100ms\+ → single\-digit ms \(\~1k RPS\) • Zebra: OTA microservices for \~2M handhelds \(GCP\) • PayPal: China residency migration APIs at 1B\-record class \(\~1B calls/day platform\) • Healthcare: FHIR/HL7 rewrite \+ Azure AI clinical docs; Engineering Manager for \~20\+ engineers • Smartneta: full election product rebuild \(admin \+ Ionic Android/iOS\) to production stores on AWS How I lead Decisive under ambiguity\. Courageous with founders, CTOs, and directors — I tell the truth about risk, cost, and rewrite necessity, then deliver the plan that makes that truth survivable\. I step toward the fire: live cutovers, collapsing p95s, rewrite politics\. I raise the floor with standards and the ceiling with coaching — and leave teams faster and braver than I found them\. Open to Sr\. Cloud Architect / Platform Architect • Engineering Manager / SDM • Director / Head of Engineering conversations — India \(Bengaluru\), remote, hybrid

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

hermes agent

langgraph

langsmith

## Work experience

Engineering Manager \(Consultant\) at Onyx, Nov 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Walked into a bloated FHIR/HL7 interoperability stack with low client confidence — named the rewrite, won founder/CTO and \~20\+ engineer buy\-in, then proved it\. • Redesigned brittle Spring Boot into Spring Integration \+ Kafka event\-driven flows with MongoDB job state for recoverable large\-file processing • IDR/ETL: FHIR/CCDA/ADT → PostgreSQL / Snowflake with dependency graphs for dedup/versioning; CMS\-oriented compliance contributions • Azure AI pipelines for clinical documents & medical images → structured clinical data, longitudinal views, payer risk scoring; RAG\-ready document paths; Databricks at scale • Architect Nov 2024 – Apr 2025; Engineering Manager from May 2025 — people \+ delivery leadership across multiple leads/workstreams: priorities, quality bar, stakeholder confidence; AI workstreams that ship with observability, not demos

Principal Engineer / Architect \(Consultant\) at Smart Neta, Dec 2025 \- Jun 2026 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Primary engineering owner \(with a product partner\) for a full election\-operations rebuild — admin \+ Ionic Android/iOS — from a near\-unusable Java 8 / old Ionic stack\. • Multi\-tenancy, hierarchical surveys \(state→booth\), offline\-first sync, geo\-verification, multilingual UX, thermal\-printer confirmation, map dashboards • Scale intent: large volunteer bases; voter datasets in the 10–100M class • AWS modernisation: containers, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Amplify admin, secrets/HA — Play Store & App Store production releases • Small team, large ambition — carried the technical weight end to end

Solutions Architect at Blooming Health, Feb 2024 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Social\-care cloud product: multilingual IVR/SMS assessments \(Twilio, Google Translate\) and intelligent next\-step automation\. • Replaced callback spaghetti with Spring Integration, then layered LangChain workflows \(tool\-based next steps, human\-in\-the\-loop\) • Example agentic path: post\-surgery pain signal → locality/availability tools → clinician suggestion → booking / transport — experimental honesty with funding constraints • Built CI/CD from near zero \(backend, Amplify, Google container deploys\) so a 0→1 product could scale after funding • Coached engineers on workflow standards and production readiness

SDE\-III at Tesco Bengaluru, Dec 2023 \- Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Own platform and application outcomes for a retail order estate at \~500M API hits/day \(\~1M online orders/day, \~10M till orders/day\)\. • Continue the estate transformation arc: live AWS → Azure with zero\-downtime cutover; Terraform/Ansible IaC; Azure landing zones & PIM; AKS; Confluent Cloud \(active\-active\); ECK; Redis/Couchbase replatforms; GitHub Actions \+ Argo CD / Argo Rollouts • \~100B documents / \~100TB\+ class moves via Azure Data Factory \(S3 → Azure Storage\) • DR and active\-active architectures for multi\-region continuity • DDD\-led order rewrite; Java 11 → Java 25; surface \~500k → \~100k LOC; resilience patterns \(circuit breaker, fallbacks, bulkheads\) • Multi\-squad delivery leadership — architecture runway, Design–Develop–Run, coaching leads and engineers through simplification under fire

Platform Architect at Careator Technologies, Sep 2021 \- Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Phase II of the Tesco order\-platform arc — live AWS → Azure foundation for an estate at \~500M API hits/day\. • Terraform/Ansible IaC, Azure landing zones, networking, PIM • EC2 / self\-managed K8s → AKS; ECR → ACR; Kafka → Confluent Cloud \(active\-active\); ES → ECK; Redis/Couchbase replatforms • Azure Data Factory for \~100B documents / \~100TB\+ class archival paths • Jenkins → GitHub Actions \+ Argo CD / Argo Rollouts; consumer guidance for \~15 external Kafka teams • Zero\-downtime cutover design: customer segmentation, anti\-corruption routing, canary expansion Stints: Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 and Mar 2023 – Dec 2023\. Transitioned into permanent Tesco ownership \(Phase III\) in Dec 2023\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer and Information Sciences, General, dayananda sagar college of engineering

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