Lakkam Rangaswamy
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Bengaluru
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager
Intel
Bangalore
05.2023 - Current
- Built and led the engineering team for Intel’s Ledger as a Service from the ground up, delivering a decentralized, confidential ledger platform supporting Intel’s Trust Attestation Service for SGX and TDX workloads.
- Architected and managed distributed microservices to enable scalable orchestration and deployment of Intel's KVX engines across multi-tenant environments, ensuring performance and isolation.
- Delivered infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automating lifecycle management, provisioning, and secure deployment of ledger components in private and hybrid cloud environments.
- Drove successful GA launch and multiple production releases, collaborating with product, platform, and customer stakeholders to ensure availability, scalability, and privacy-preserving compute through DAML-based smart contract integration.
- Led the SaaS platform team delivering Secure Federated AI as a Service, enabling enterprises to collaboratively train AI models across distributed environments with zero data leakage.
- Architected and deployed microservices-based infrastructure to automate provisioning of confidential compute environments (e.g., Intel SGX/TDX) and federated training workflows using OpenFL.
- Delivered a clean, user-friendly interface and control plane, allowing data scientists and enterprises to manage training jobs, collaborators, and attestation policies across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.
Engineering Manager
VMware
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Led development of VMBC-as-a-Service on vSphere, building infrastructure automation and provisioning microservices to deliver on-prem blockchain deployments for enterprise clients.
- Architected and managed scalable microservices enabling distributed infrastructure orchestration and deployment of VMware Blockchain engines in multi-tenant environments.
- Enabled Byzantine Fault Tolerant (SBFT) consensus for secure, high-throughput distributed transactions across nodes, ensuring data consistency and fault tolerance in regulated settings.
- Delivered infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines for seamless provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring of blockchain clusters on private cloud.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with product, platform, and customer teams to support high-availability blockchain services with privacy-preserving smart contract execution using DAML.
Engineering Manager
Allstate India
01.2013 - 12.2021
- Allstate's major business is private passenger auto and homeowners insurance, primarily offered through agencies. These products are marketed under Allstate®, Encompass® and Esurance® brand names.
- Product is called Alliance which Allstate agencies use to sell insurance policies. I am part of technology strategic venture which enables technology and digital transformation to this Allstate Insurance business through this product.
- Responsible to lead and deliver property line of business insurance product and responsible to review project goals and objectives on monthly basis in collaboration with project stake holders.
- Responsible to build and maintain strong engineering teams. Also, conduct performance management, career development plans by mentoring resources.
- Perform story sizing reviews, code reviews, engineering metrics reviews, release sign-off by collaborating with product stake holders and maintain quality deliverables.
- Active involvement in org level initiatives like Managerial Effectiveness, Innovation, Global Accountability
Senior Technical Associate - Team Size 10
Tech Mahindra
03.2010 - 01.2013
- Worked for British Telecom products which is a largest provider of fixed-line, broadband, mobile and TV services in UK primarily and across globe.
- Resolved diverse range of technical issues across multiple systems and applications for customers and end-users across various time zones.
- Responsible to design and developer fixed lines and BB modules and accountable for code reviews and delivery.
- Responsible to lead 10 developers and perform story sizing, design, develop, unit test cases, code review and production deployment by collaborating with program stake holders.
Software Developer
HTC Global Services
02.2008 - 03.2010
- Worked for Olam International Limited, which is an international integrated supplier of both raw and processed agricultural commodities. The Group sources, processes, stores, transports, ships, distributes, trades and markets agricultural products.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Responsible to work as a core java developer with Struts MVC frameworks.
Software Programmer
Hurix Digital
01.2007 - 02.2008
- Worked for Tata McGraw Hill product Student publishing Site product as a full stack developer. This is a product for university students to upload study related content such as class notes and exam summaries to share with other students. Students will be able to search for, view each other files, and receive rewards for the files they contribute. Students will be able to rate and review each other content.
- As a developer involved in coding activities of various modules and responsible for CICD activities like build and deploy the product to various environments including production.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science -
Madanapalle Institute of Technology
Madanapalle 06.2001 - 06.2005
Skills
Well versed with - Java, J2ee, Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Spring Cloud, Spring REST), Micro Services, SOAP Webservices, Struts MVC, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, Oracle, MySQL, JSP and Servlets
Build and Deployment – Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, PCF, Eclipse, IntelliJ, GITGUB, SoapUI, Postman, JIRA, VersionOne, Confluence
Cloud - Azure, PCF and AWS
Profile
- Senior Engineering Manager with 18 years of experience in developing, designing and delivering large scale distributed systems. Committed to rapidly and efficiently completing projects by leveraging team-based frameworks to best leverage available engineering talent.
- Experience in building and motivates high-performing engineering team.
- Responsible to transform business requirements into architecture solutions, designs/long-term solutions using various architectural styles (Client/Server, 3-Tier, N- tier, Services, micro-services, Message Queues, Layered, Domain/Event Driven, Components Based, Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Hybrid))/ platforms etc.
- Expertise in Enterprise Application Solution Architecture, styles, Design patterns, OOPS, Object oriented analysis & design, Java, Spring framework eco system, database, Software development life cycles, Agile-Scrum developments, DevOps, Docker, K8S and Cloud (Azure).
- Experience in budget planning, staff planning, hiring. Experience in preparing Technology roadmap and OKR's.
- Experience in managing $10M vendor contracts.
- Excellent knowledge in Project Life Cycle, Product Life Cycle, SDLC, Project Management, Incident / Problem / Change Management exhibiting excellence in Project Tracking, Stakeholder Communication, analyzing KPIs etc.
Accomplishments
- Received Valuable Team Player and Pat On Back award in 2011, 2012 from Tech Mahindra for untiring efforts and dedication towards delivery of product.
- Received Pat On Back, Apprecio, Standing Ovation and Learning Champion awards in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 from Allstate India for excellent and outstanding performance in technology and leadership.
- Identified as Top Talent of Allstate in 2016, with a proven track record of building High performing teams across Technology streams and selected for Executive Management program at IIM Bangalore.
- Delivered eAgent product under $2M budget for 2020-21 by incorporating best delivery and operational excellency practices.
- Achieved savings of $64K in 2020-21 through project estimations reviews and innovative solutions like server optimizations, resource capacity management and release validation automations.
- Received Divisional Recognition Award for delivering Intel Ledger as a Service and Secure Fed AI as a Service projects GA.
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager
Intel
05.2023 - Current
Engineering Manager
VMware
01.2022 - 05.2023
Engineering Manager
Allstate India
01.2013 - 12.2021
Senior Technical Associate - Team Size 10
Tech Mahindra
03.2010 - 01.2013
Software Developer
HTC Global Services
02.2008 - 03.2010
Software Programmer
Hurix Digital
01.2007 - 02.2008
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science -
Madanapalle Institute of Technology
06.2001 - 06.2005
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