Venkat Kotla

Google Cloud Business Platform.

Bring clarity to technical vision and drive the tradeoffs in its execution. Responsible for engineering, data science, QA, IT, infrastructure, and operations at Securonix, a leader in SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, and Threat Intel products; uses a unified SaaS platform at the intersection of Cyber Security, Big Data, and Machine Learning. Securonix is a unicorn company backed by Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s largest private equity firms with over $100B in assets under management. Securonix protects more than 30% of Fortune 500 enterprises and over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including some of the largest global enterprises and MSSPs, from sophisticated cyber threats. As part of the Office of the CEO, I collaborate closely with the Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team to help operate and scale a $100M+ ARR global cybersecurity business with global operations and strong investor backing. Major transformations and metrics: 100% GenAI adoption internally. 30% developer productivity improvement. 90% reducation on MTTR using AIOps. 99.9% SLAs achieved using automations. Above 4.0 Glassdoor reviews. Hired and retained the best talent. Delivered five agents to production with hundreds of customer adoptions. AI-DLC spec-driven development in progress. Tech modernizations: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/securonix-case-study/ and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/behind-securonixs-unified-siem-spark-architecture-on-amazon-eks-99-99-availability-across-10000-concurrent-jobs/ Innovations: https://www.securonix.com/products/sam-the-ai-soc-analyst/ and https://www.securonix.com/products/securonix-snowflake/

Responsible for the Economy business unit, which includes Commerce, Billing, Marketplace, and Ecosystem Platforms; a 750+ people engineering team in four geo-locations with a $500M ARR.

Responsible for integrating Looker, a leader in Business Intelligence SaaS with a $250M ARR, into Google after the $2.6B acquisition; led 250+ people in engineering, program management, and operations in three geo-locations.

Responsible for Google Assistant ("Hey, Google!"), now Gemini, product engineering, and an on-device ML platform with speech, language, and vision integration on various IoT devices: Smart Displays, Speakers, TVs, Autos, Wearables, Robots, Telephony, etc.

Led tier-1 Google Cloud services: VPC, Load Balancing, VPN, NAT, Peering, Multi-NIC, Endpoint groups, IP aliasing, etc. Led mission critical internal services: GSLB, DoSServer, QuotaServer etc.

Led Google Distributed and Software Defined Networking Systems in Cluster, Aggregation, and Wide Area Networks.

Double Major. Term directors list (top 10%).

Second MS. Topper of the class with 4.0 GPA, three courses A+, and best thesis award.

First MS. Top 1% of the class.

Top 10% of the class with 3 journal publications.