Sudheer Guntuka
Hi, I'm Sudheer, a seasoned Engineering Leader with over 20 years of experience in driving successful delivery and leading diverse, high-performing teams across different geographies.
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Hi, I’m Sudheer, a seasoned Engineering Leader with over 20 years of experience in driving successful delivery and leading diverse, high-performing teams across different geographies. I specialize in building scalable, highly available systems and integrating AI/ML capabilities to optimize system behavior and improve efficiency. I enjoy fostering collaborative environments that promote proactive problem-solving and innovation.
I’m passionate about mentoring and coaching teams to exceed expectations while maintaining strong communication with stakeholders. Throughout my career, I have successfully led large-scale migrations, implemented security best practices, and driven technical excellence to ensure robust and resilient platforms.
- 24 years' experience
- Joined June 2025
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Computers & Electronics
- Professional Services
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Work experience· 6 roles
Led foundational and collaboration services including identity, access control, eventing, and storage using AWS technologies such as Kinesis, SQS, S3, Lambda, Eventbridge, and Kafka. Managed a diverse, geographically dispersed team of engineers, scrum masters, and managers, overseeing budgeting, team growth, and staffing strategies. Partnered with executive leadership on product and people strategies, driving budget and roadmap decisions. Led migration of core services to AWS with an event-driven architecture enabling AI/ML integration, improving efficiency by 20%. Architected zero-downtime database migration platform resulting in 99.99% availability. Drove cost reduction achieving 10% savings despite 20% traffic growth. Spearheaded employee engagement program with a 15% satisfaction increase. Led SOC 2, FedRAMP, and GDPR compliance initiatives expanding market access. Enhanced platform resiliency and scalability ensuring zero downtime. Implemented distributed tracing, reducing trouble
Led design and evolution of Autodesk's Identity service to support enterprise SSO, including benchmarking and vendor evaluations focusing on functionality, cost-efficiency, and scalability. Partnered with external vendors to implement federated authentication for products using SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM, enabling context-aware access control and AI/ML powered risk-based authentication. Architected and prototyped AWS and Azure solutions, leading migration of the entire stack to AWS serverless infrastructure. Identified vulnerabilities and implemented mitigation strategies to improve system stability and performance. Developed resilient architecture supporting 99.99% uptime and 200M+ users. Led foundational services using AWS Kinesis, SQS, S3, Lambda, Kafka, and others.
Led design, architecture, and development of foundational, collaboration, and monetization services such as Identity, Metering, Autodesk Drive, API management, E-commerce shopping cart, and Developer Experience. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on requirements and provided technical strategy and roadmap. Filled multiple roles including engineer, architect, product manager, and scrum master in a fast-paced environment. Implemented APIs and services using NodeJS, React, AWS, Apigee, Java, .NET, Spring, SQL Server, MongoDB, and Stripe.
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