Krishna Seerapu

Managed a 50+ engineering team supporting 4,000+ engineers across Devices & Services, Chrome, and Google. Provided infrastructure, testing tools, and engineering productivity solutions for multiple products and services.

• "Velocity" Platform: Pioneered the "Continuous Build and Deployment" platform, ensuring high-quality, continuous delivery of Pixel features. Streamlined the app release process with transparent build management and bug-tracking automation.

• ARCore Platform: Supported over two dozen ARCore releases, enabling AR functionality on ~2B+ devices. Improved release build times from 3 weeks to 1 week, ensuring faster delivery of AR features across Android (600M+ devices), iOS (800M+ devices), and ARCore Lite (1.3B+ devices).

• Pixel Device Lab: Established a testing service with 1,200+ devices and 100+ servers, supporting 50+ teams to execute 200,000 weekly tests. Increased average device utilization from 10% to 60% and maintained 95% infrastructure stability.

• Global Satellite Lab: Expanded satellite connectivity labs across 20+ global sites to test 5G, Bluetooth, GPS, GNSS, and DSDS radio stability, reducing manual testing costs by 60%.

• ML for Testing: Founded an ML-based testing team to develop tools specifically for AR/VR/Lens products, providing advanced testing methods where traditional tools were inadequate.

Developed scalable frameworks and tools to enhance mobile shopping applications.

• Mobile Service & App Framework: Led the development of a framework that enables over 100 Amazon partner teams to extend the functionality of iOS and Android shopping apps. Utilized APIs, tools, and conventions to allow developers to deploy new features without modifying the source code.

• ShopKit: Architected and implemented APIs within ShopKit, allowing Extensions to access core services in the mShop application.

• ARMED (Amazon Remote Mobile Execution Distributor): Spearheaded the creation of a cloud-based testing service for Android, iOS, and web apps, supporting 3K devices with 99.99% availability.

• SMAUG (Simple Mobile Automation Gateway): Led the development of an automation framework enabling teams to write tests once and run them across all operating systems and locales. Supported 45+ mobile teams executing 50K weekly tests with a 98% framework stability rate.

• Developed E2E Test Framework and Device Lab: Initiated the establishment of an end-to-end test framework and device lab during the prototype phase of Alexa, phones, tablets, and other Amazon devices.

• Technological Vision: Displayed remarkable foresight by introducing advanced testing methodologies and tools to ensure product reliability and performance.

• Excellent Execution: Managed complex projects efficiently under strict deadlines, delivering high-quality outcomes that significantly impacted the product development cycle.

• Lab Expansion: Expanded the device lab from 5 devices to 100x, supporting extensive and robust testing needs. Implemented Innovative Solutions such as developing a custom web socket driver to achieve stable automation when Appium was unstable in 2014, enhancing testing reliability.

• Cost-Efficiency: Saved over $1 million in testing costs by reducing manual vendor teams and manual testing efforts by 60%.

• Speed Enhancement: Reduced build verification time from 2 days to 1 hour, speeding up the development process and boosting productivity.

Led the development of key features for RSA NetWitness, a network security monitoring platform that enhances enterprise situational awareness and addresses critical information security challenges. Oversaw the development and release of Security Analytics (SA) versions 9.8, 10.1, and 10.2.

• Real-Time Alerting: Developed alerting functionality for real-time security alerts and event correlation using rule-based triggers, providing proactive threat detection for enterprises.

• Reporting Engine: Managed the backend service powering SOC (Security Operations Center) dashboards, enabling efficient querying and data processing from various Big Data sources to enhance security operations.

• Log Management: Led the development of log management systems for archiving event logs, ensuring compliance and providing log analytics tools for security analysts to detect and investigate potential threats.

Driving efficiency and scalability across engineering operations and product delivery.

• Spearheaded the development of automation frameworks and tools, enabling teams to achieve "Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)" with high reliability.

• Improved test infrastructure and build systems, reducing release cycle times and increasing overall developer productivity across multiple teams and products.

• Developed monitoring and alerting systems to identify issues early, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality software with minimal downtime.

• Fostered cross-functional collaboration and introduced scalable infrastructure solutions to support rapid feature development while maintaining product stability.

• Led efforts in security automation, reducing vulnerabilities across codebases and ensuring robust defenses against potential threats.

• Technical Leadership: Led the technical development for five major product lines within Progress OpenEdge, including Core Client, Database, Server Technologies & Tools, Sonic Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and APAMA Complex Event Processing (CEP) & Stock Brokering Adapters.

• Framework Development: Spearheaded the creation of an in-house Python framework for testing OpenEdge Server technologies and APAMA Stock Brokering Adapters. This framework was developed in collaboration with the PySys team and was later open-sourced.

• Extended Framework Usage: Applied the Python framework in subsequent roles at RSA and Amazon for Fire Automation, demonstrating its versatility and effectiveness across different environments.

• Automation & Performance Testing: Designed and implemented a Python-based framework for performance testing of Progress OpenEdge Databases and Sonic Services, enhancing automation and performance evaluation capabilities.

• Designed and implemented test automation for Microsoft Office Outlook Live (MOOL) products.

• Developed and maintained automated test frameworks for Office Outlook products, enhancing the reliability and coverage of the test suite.

• Improved existing test automation processes, ensuring effective testing and streamlined development workflows.

Worked on VxWorks Board Support Packages and utility development for Telecom Expense Management (TEM) platforms.

• Board Support Packages: Developed VxWorks Board Support Packages for Compact PCI, PCI Mezzanine, and ATCA blades/systems, supporting the Telecom Expense Management platform.

• Utility Development: Created and optimized utilities for VxWorks and Linux BSPs, including Memory Performance, Ethernet Performance, RAM Disk, FTP Stress Testing, Watchdog Timers and CPLD Registers Tests.

• IPMI Tests: Implemented IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) tests to monitor and manage system health.

• Hot Swap Tests: Developed tests for Hot Swap RAM and Hard Disk operations to ensure system stability and reliability during component replacement.