Currently @ Okta · Staff Engineer

Yeshwanth V Shenoy

Staff engineer building platforms that power engineering teams at scale. 2000+ engineers rely on infrastructure I've shipped — from secret managers to GitOps platforms to low-code testing. I obsess over adoption, compliance, and solving the problems teams actually care about.

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engineer.ts

const engineer = {
  name:  "Yeshwanth V Shenoy",
  role:  "Staff Software Engineer",
  years: 11,
  at:    "Okta",
  focus: [
    "Platform Engineering",
    "Developer Adoption",
    "Distributed Systems",
    "Compliance & Scale",
  ],
  sla:   "99.99%",
  stack: [
    "Java", "Go",
    "Python", "TypeScript",
    "Kubernetes",
  ],
};

2000+ Engineers Onboarded

3K RPS Peak Traffic

30% Infrastructure Cost Reduction

expertise

Platform Engineering Stack

Technologies that enabled scaling platforms to 2000+ engineers with high reliability and compliance baked in.

Languages

Java Python Go TypeScript

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker Kafka gRPC GCP AWS

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog PagerDuty

career

Experience

Okta Jan 2024 – Present

Staff Software Engineer

Platform Engineering Developer Adoption GitOps

Built a Developer Portal adopted across 500+ engineers for Git Admin and GitOps workflows; designed for usability and compliance from the ground up
Owned end-to-end delivery: scoped the problem, architected the platform, drove adoption through team collaboration and continuous feedback
Mentored 6 engineers on platform thinking and quarterly roadmap planning; helped the team own outcomes, not just features

Rakuten Aug 2020 – Dec 2023

Lead Software Engineer

Platform Engineering Microservices Cloud Scale

Shipped a secret manager handling 3K RPS with 99.99% SLA, deployed across the Internal Cloud Platform; adopted by 1000+ engineers within 8 months
Built a Low Code Test Automation Platform adopted by release and regression teams; reduced testing friction and accelerated feedback loops
Decomposed a critical monolith into microservices; helped teams become self-organizing deployment units with clear ownership

Freshworks May 2018 – Aug 2020

Senior Software Engineer

Real-time Systems Product Reliability Compliance

Shipped real-time microservices (99.999% SLA, <250ms latencies) that powered core Freshworks products; handled millions of requests daily
Reduced infrastructure spend by 20% through cloud-agnostic architecture and open source adoption — proving scale doesn't require premium tooling
Owned OWASP compliance strategy; integrated SonarQube to make security and code quality non-negotiable, not optional

TPF Software May 2015 – May 2018

Software Engineer

Developer Tooling Product Impact

Built "Find Usages" tooling for mainframe developers that shipped as a customer-facing product; directly contributed to 2% revenue increase
Shipped under security audit and load testing requirements from day one — learned to embed compliance into design, not bolt it on after