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Vikas Reddy

Lead Engineer @ Keka HR | Azure Cloud Solution Architect

Hyderabad

11+ years of work experience

Keka HR
Nov 20241 yr 8 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Ariqt Global Technologies
Feb 20222 yrs 11 mosDec 2024

On-site

• Led end-to-end delivery of MyCowManager — a B2B SaaS herd management portal — across a distributed team in India and the Netherlands, improving end-user operational efficiency by 30%. • Directed the rollout of a Feature Flag Core Management System across 15 teams and 28 applications, eliminating ~3–4 hours of coordination overhead per release cycle and enabling trunk-based development at scale. • Implemented centralised observability using Azure Application Insights with custom alert rules and a structured on-call framework (runbooks, severity tiers, escalation paths) — reducing MTTD from ~45 mins to under 8 mins and MTTR by 55%. • Architected an event-driven microservices platform using DDD, Azure Service Bus, and Azure App Configuration — replacing a monolith and scaling to support 5x growth in active integrations. • Balanced hands-on technical delivery with people leadership, roadmap alignment, and stakeholder management in a high-ownership startup environment.
Ariqt Global Technologies
May 20219 mosJan 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Built CI/CD pipelines (YAML) and IaC (ARM Templates, Bicep) — eliminating manual deployment overhead, cutting config-drift-related prod incidents by ~75%, and reducing environment provisioning from days to under 2 hours across 3 parallel teams. • Delivered an Azure OpenAI-powered Speech-to-Text product recognised by Microsoft and featured in a keynote; team was invited for direct product feedback, marking the org as an enterprise AI early-mover. • Introduced distributed tracing across 12 microservices via Azure App Insights — reducing bottleneck diagnosis from 2–3 hours of manual log correlation to under 10 minutes. • Automated Salesforce-based manual workflows via Azure Service Bus and Function Apps, reducing manual intervention and improving operational efficiency by 30%.
American Specialty Health
Dec 20173 yrs 4 mosMar 2021

San Diego, California, United States

• Designed and delivered HIPAA-compliant, role-specific portals (claims, practitioner management, patient self-service) supporting thousands of practitioners across chiropractic and allied health verticals — built on .NET Core, MVC, and Azure SQL. • Built an XUnit API testing framework adopted as the team standard — reducing manual regression effort by 60% and cutting QA cycle time by ~2 days per sprint. • Led a data access layer refactoring from raw SQL to Entity Framework (repository pattern) — reducing data access code by ~40% and cutting new engineer onboarding time by ~25%. • Partnered with product and QA to embed BDD-style test coverage and define acceptance criteria, establishing a quality-first engineering culture across the team.
LIFETIME FITNESS
Jan 20162 yrsDec 2017

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Built full-stack features on a scheduling and registration platform serving 136 fitness locations and hundreds of thousands of members, using ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and Xamarin for cross-platform mobile support. • Grew unit test coverage from 41% to 82% using XUnit and integrated SonarQube into the CI pipeline — reducing post-release defects and improving release confidence across a 6-person team. • Drove code quality standards with senior engineers, reducing PR cycle time and improving consistency across a cross-platform codebase (web + mobile).
San Diego State University
May 20158 mosDec 2015

Education

San Diego State University

Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

San Diego State University

20141 yr2015
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

20104 yrs2014

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Headline

Lead Engineer @ Keka HR | Azure Cloud Solution Architect

About

10.5 years building enterprise software. The last 4+ leading the engineers who build it. I work at the intersection of cloud architecture and engineering leadership — designing systems on .NET Core and Azure, and developing teams that deliver with ownership. Domain experience across Healthcare, HRMS, Fintech, and Herd Management domains. Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert · MS in Computer Engineering, San Diego State University.

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

Lead Engineer at Keka HR, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Technical Team Lead at Ariqt Global Technologies, Feb 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos, On-site, • Led end-to-end delivery of MyCowManager — a B2B SaaS herd management portal — across a distributed team in India and the Netherlands, improving end-user operational efficiency by 30%. • Directed the rollout of a Feature Flag Core Management System across 15 teams and 28 applications, eliminating ~3–4 hours of coordination overhead per release cycle and enabling trunk-based development at scale. • Implemented centralised observability using Azure Application Insights with custom alert rules and a structured on-call framework (runbooks, severity tiers, escalation paths) — reducing MTTD from ~45 mins to under 8 mins and MTTR by 55%. • Architected an event-driven microservices platform using DDD, Azure Service Bus, and Azure App Configuration — replacing a monolith and scaling to support 5x growth in active integrations. • Balanced hands-on technical delivery with people leadership, roadmap alignment, and stakeholder management in a high-ownership startup environment.

Senior Software Developer at Ariqt Global Technologies, May 2021 - Jan 2022 · 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Built CI/CD pipelines (YAML) and IaC (ARM Templates, Bicep) — eliminating manual deployment overhead, cutting config-drift-related prod incidents by ~75%, and reducing environment provisioning from days to under 2 hours across 3 parallel teams. • Delivered an Azure OpenAI-powered Speech-to-Text product recognised by Microsoft and featured in a keynote; team was invited for direct product feedback, marking the org as an enterprise AI early-mover. • Introduced distributed tracing across 12 microservices via Azure App Insights — reducing bottleneck diagnosis from 2–3 hours of manual log correlation to under 10 minutes. • Automated Salesforce-based manual workflows via Azure Service Bus and Function Apps, reducing manual intervention and improving operational efficiency by 30%.

Software Engineer I at American Specialty Health, Dec 2017 - Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos, San Diego, California, United States, • Designed and delivered HIPAA-compliant, role-specific portals (claims, practitioner management, patient self-service) supporting thousands of practitioners across chiropractic and allied health verticals — built on .NET Core, MVC, and Azure SQL. • Built an XUnit API testing framework adopted as the team standard — reducing manual regression effort by 60% and cutting QA cycle time by ~2 days per sprint. • Led a data access layer refactoring from raw SQL to Entity Framework (repository pattern) — reducing data access code by ~40% and cutting new engineer onboarding time by ~25%. • Partnered with product and QA to embed BDD-style test coverage and define acceptance criteria, establishing a quality-first engineering culture across the team.

Associate Software Engineer at LIFETIME FITNESS, Jan 2016 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, • Built full-stack features on a scheduling and registration platform serving 136 fitness locations and hundreds of thousands of members, using ASP.NET MVC, AngularJS, and Xamarin for cross-platform mobile support. • Grew unit test coverage from 41% to 82% using XUnit and integrated SonarQube into the CI pipeline — reducing post-release defects and improving release confidence across a 6-person team. • Drove code quality standards with senior engineers, reducing PR cycle time and improving consistency across a cross-platform codebase (web + mobile).

Student Assistant at San Diego State University, May 2015 - Dec 2015 · 8 mos

Education

Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University