Pranathi Irala

- Architected and led adoption of SigV4A signature-based authentication between Host Manager (HM) and Control Plane (CP), enhancing security posture across the global ElastiCache fleet (~2M instances) and setting direction for service-wide identity management. - Defined and delivered a fleet-wide credential-rotation framework, eliminating static credentials and aligning the service with AWS security standards. - Led migration of the ElastiCache fleet from external to embedded Tomcat, simplifying deployment, cutting operational complexity, and improving scalability for 2M+ instances. - Partnered with cross-org teams to launch EventBridge integration for the ElastiCache Serverless offering, enabling event-driven observability. - Mentored 6+ engineers and guided multiple teams through gray-failure detection, recovery mechanisms, and serverless patching initiatives, monitoring and recovery for networking for clusters etc. Influenced architecture direction by conducting design reviews and aligning Host Manager roadmap with AWS-wide goals. - Collaborated with leadership on multi-year planning and operational posture improvements. - Conducted 50+ technical interviews across SDE I–III levels, shaping hiring standards.

- Led end-to-end design and delivery for data tiering in MemoryDB, spanning control plane, monitoring, and billing components. - Owned billing and metering integration for data tiering in ElastiCache, enabling cost-aware usage tracking. - Implemented mutual TLS authentication between HM and CP components using ACM-issued certificates. - Built automated anomaly detection for customer CloudWatch metrics, improving fleet utilization and customer experience. - Improved operational health by reducing recurring incidents through targeted reliability fixes.

- Designed and implemented Ship-to-Store experience for multiple product categories integrated through Item Association (IA). - Architected cancellation workflows for bundled products, ensuring consistency across retail flows. - Enabled internationalization for Ship-to-Store feature, supporting multi-currency and locale preferences. - Partnered with retail teams to expand Ship-to-Store globally and migrate legacy APIs. - Reviewed and onboarded cross-team clients to IA, defining extensibility standards.

- Worked with a backend engine R&D team that focuses on improving the performance of the product, development, and support of features for Pega Rules Process Commander(PRPC). Primary language of development is Java. - Development covered areas including efficient data structures for serialization and deserialization of customizable Pega business rules, scheduled background processing with efficient data distribution across all application nodes in a cluster, Caches, tools for performance measurement, unit tests using Junits etc. - Worked with the SWAT team and provided secondary level technical support for clients across the globe by resolving high-severity issues.