Venkatesh Dhongadi

Software Engineer @ Google

About

Building software that is used by millions of developers worldwide to build world class apps - Android Studio, by Google. Where even the tools that build apps are built with care, precision, and the occasional stack trace.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Kotlin, Backend, Apex Programming, Motoko, Web3, Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Information Retrieval, Design Review, Analytical Skills, SQL, Back-End Web Development, Front-End Development, Software Development, MongoDB, Web Development, DevOps, TypeScript, Git, Open-Source Software

Experience

Software Engineer

Google

2025-5 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Founding engineer on the team responsible for developing and launching the developer testing tools within Android Studio.

Software Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

2023-8 - 2025-5 · 1 yr 10 mos

Bangalore

=>Contributed to the Quoting & Subscriptions track in GTM - IT, optimizing performance and ensuring system stability by resolving high-priority bugs and tech debts. Improved the quote processing system, reducing execution time from 6038ms to 500-900ms, leading to an 85% performance boost. Led incident response for CDSS, resolving 70-100 incidents, which significantly enhanced security and system reliability. => Developed security fixes for SOQL injection vulnerabilities, strengthening platform-wide security. Spearheaded automation initiatives, reducing manual debugging effort by 30%, and implemented process improvements in SD-WAN contract creation to streamline team workflows. Played a pivotal role in configurations for SASE NPI & NGFW NPI, ensuring the timely and accurate rollout of new products. => Led knowledge-sharing initiatives, delivering technical talks on RACI and SASE, mentoring junior engineers, and driving efficiency improvements. Additionally, spearheaded the creation of an automated CPQ solution, reducing quoting time from 3 days to 30 minutes, accelerating market entry processes by 80%.

Intern

Palo Alto Networks

2023-1 - 2023-8 · 8 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

=>Build customized solutions that support business requirements and drive important business decisions by developing in Lightning, Visualforce, Apex, JQuery, HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript.

Frontend Developer Intern

Obmondo

2022-11 - 2022-12 · 2 mos

Denmark

=>Develop K8id - Kubernetes Aid, which is our main product - an Open Source Kubernetes management framework, based on gitops principles =>Focused on developing automation and self-service portal for users to use.

Full Stack Developer Intern

OLECONS

2022-1 - 2022-10 · 10 mos

=>Building full stack applications. =>Creating coding content for platform Extraise - consisting of video solutions for the popular website freeCodeCamp. =>Work on Jitsi meet Web-RTC, an open source video conferencing app.

Frontend Developer Intern

OLECONS

2021-6 - 2021-12 · 7 mos

During this internship I was exposed to various activities in a product based on Frontend Development and worked using technologies like React, Redux, HTML, CSS, WebRTC Jitsi Meet opensource.