---
title: "Vikas Reddy - Lead Engineer in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Vikas Reddy, Lead Engineer @ Keka HR | Azure Cloud Solution Architect based in Hyderabad."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/vikas-32/share-image"
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# Vikas Reddy on Tal

## 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

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