Vivek Munagala

- Lead dual engineering charters focused on off-Google engineering and IoT fleet management, defining the technical vision for securing and scaling distributed architectures. - Direct cross-functional teams to build resilient, hardware-agnostic solutions that manage diverse device fleets and enforce strict security protocols across edge networks.

Orchestrated the strategic transfer of the AML engineering charter from the US to Hyderabad, ensuring 100% business continuity for critical compliance infrastructure. Built the Sanctions user experience vertical from 0-to-1, defining a cross-organizational architectural strategy with Payments, Identity, and Compliance to embed in-session verification into various Google products.

Led the team that launched Business Manager (BM), successfully onboarding all Google Merchant Center and Google Business Profile accounts onto a unified identity infrastructure.

- Led the transformation of local shopping consumer experiences on Google Shopping. - Architected a next-gen local shopping serving system, crafting reusable modules to expedite feature development. Established standards for engineers within the commerce organization who contributed to local modules. - Incepted, designed, and launched the Local Stores Card, solving complex technical challenges like auction-free ranking to create a critical strategy for local shopping properties.

Launched shopping.google.com for NBU countries and executed the integration of Google Business Profile products into global shopping infrastructure. The launches were featured in Google-for-Indonesia and India press events.

- Designed and implemented migration logic for the Espresso control plane (from BGP to Static Labels), resolving reliability risks for Tbps of edge traffic (10% of total Google capacity). - Engineered a fleet-wide upgrade of BGP Monitoring Protocol, developing encapsulation features to protect 25+ Tbps of capacity during router capability failures.

• Improved page load times for parked pages from 300 ms to 100 ms. • Achieved more than 30000 QPS on a single PowerDNS process by implementing backend module in C. • Devised and developed a cache solution for determining IP to country mapping. • Implemented a Varnish module to serve different cached content based on country and user-agent. • Implemented a full-scale selenium tool for monitoring and do functional testing. • Implemented an apache module to gain performance of >10000 queries per second (QPS) on a single server compared to a standalone script serving 2000-3000 • Also part of a team responsible for serving Ads on publisher sites • Trainer for the course “Computer Architecture” for new joiners at DirectI. • Active member of recruitment panel of DirectI. Also involved in framing algorithmic questions used in interviews.

Teaching assistant for Data Structures and Algorithms

Elected member for Core committee of Synapse’08, annual techno-cultural fest of DA-IICT