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title: "Krishnaprasad Shivdasan - Principal Software Architect in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Krishnaprasad Shivdasan, Principal Architect | Engineering Leader | Entrepreneur | Cloud | SaaS | Distributed Systems | AI/ML based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity and codex."
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# Krishnaprasad Shivdasan on Tal

## Headline

Principal Architect \| Engineering Leader \| Entrepreneur \| Cloud \| SaaS \| Distributed Systems \| AI/ML

## About

A seasoned Technology Leader with over 29 years of software development experience, having a strong background in product development\. I specialize in building large\-scale cloud\-native, multi\-tenant, SaaS applications in areas like web apps, big data, ML/analytics, and security for a variety of industries, including ZTNA, customer support, real estate, retail e\-commerce, and online advertising\. Also, a strong 10 years of experience as an Engineering leader and entrepreneur with a successful exit, having a track record of leading and mentoring global, multifunctional teams and senior technical engineers\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Principal Software Architect at Bazaarvoice, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Architect at F5, Apr 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed multiple features in BIG\-IP Next Mgmt Plane like DNS/GSLB, Firewall \(ACL\) Designed and developed PoCs for various Cloud initiatives like Mgmt Plane aaS, and Cloud Observability for on\-prem systems\. Part of the Architecture team to design the integration of the F5 Distributed SaaS platform with F5 Edge products like BIG\-IP and Nginx\. Designed the pluggable and extensible BIG\-IP Integration layer to connect to all flavors of BIG\-IP systems\.

Principal Architect/Engineering Leader at Zentry Security, Feb 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru East, Karnataka, India, Building the Cloud\-native, multi\-tenant, SaaS Architecture for the Zentry Zero Trust Application, and a Big Data Platform for Analytics, Reporting, Anomaly Detection\(UEBA\), and future Data Science using AWS and private cloud on top of Kubernetes and Docker\. Evangelized and implemented Agile and CI/CD culture improving estimation and reducing delays resulting in faster delivery times with reduced defects\.

Engg Head and Architect \- Platform Services & Engagement Cloud at \[24\]7, Jan 2017 \- Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, I kickstarted and built the Central Platform Services team which builds common services used by other products in the company thereby eliminating duplicate services and enabling integration of multiple products to provide custom solutions to customers\. These included an automated customer onboarding platform that reduced the onboarding time from days to hours, common AuthN and AuthZ services, etc\. As Architect of the Engagement Cloud, I architected the Observability layer of the different applications\. In conjunction with application architects, architected the single SaaS platform that integrates chat, messaging, and voice channels with virtual and live agents\. Also managed and mentored Senior Principal Engineers and Principal Engineers\.

Head Of Customer Applications at CommonFloor\.com \- A Quikr Company, Dec 2014 \- Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Building an integrated platform for Customer Apps from Onboarding and Activating Customers to Product Delivery for various products like Leads, Ad Banners etc\. Handling the datacenter migration of the entire CommonFloor Application Stack to Quikr datacenter from planning to implementation\. Handling the entire CommonFloor Application supporting operations and product in all modules including, User facing front end, customer modules, content and data modules like Listings and Projects etc\. Evangelized and architected the End\-to\-End Big Data pipeline to provide a single platform for all analytical and business needs like predictive analytics, business reports/insights, business intelligence, machine learning and other ad\-hoc needs using Kafka, Fluentd, Sqoop, ELK stack, Kinesis, Hive, HBase, Hadoop\. Prototyped the next generation customer platform based on SOA/Micro services architecture using Dropwizard/Play framework to enable agility, velocity to achieve Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery architecture\. Built a complex rules engine for connecting buyers to sellers with pluggable business rules including pricing, promotion campaigns\. Built an Android mobile application for customers, initiated and built the SPAM Management System\.

## Education

B\. E\., Computer Science, University of Mumbai

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