Sraavan Chevireddy
Staff Engineer & Tech Lead
Summary
Staff Engineer and Tech Lead with 12+ years building developer infrastructure and backend platforms across developer tooling, fintech, and healthcare. Currently lead the core of Nexus Repository at Sonatype — the artifact platform roughly 70% of the Fortune 100 depend on — owning artifact resolution, repository formats, software supply-chain security, and petabyte-scale performance. Deep experience in Java, Kotlin, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, with a track record of leading teams and mentoring engineers.
12+ yrs engineering experience~70% of the Fortune 100 on Nexus15M+ artifact downloads / month
Experience
Staff Engineer & Tech Lead — Sonatype
2022 — Present- Lead the core engineering team for Nexus Repository, the artifact management platform roughly 70% of the Fortune 100 use to build and ship software.
- Own the artifact-resolution read path serving 15M+ downloads per month to tens of thousands of concurrent CI/CD clients, sustaining low latency and correctness under heavy load.
- Deliver repository-format support across major package ecosystems (Maven, npm, Docker, Helm, and more), keeping one consistent internal model true to each protocol.
- Drive software supply-chain security — artifact signing, verification, and secure-by-default policies — hardening the platform against supply-chain attacks.
- Architect performance and scale across petabyte-scale blob storage, blob-store federation, and garbage collection.
Tech: Java · Kotlin · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Helm · AWS · Maven · npm
Senior Software Engineer — LendingTree
2019 — 2022- Engineered core services in the loan-processing pipeline handling millions of applications per month.
- Improved throughput, reliability, and observability of high-volume production systems.
Senior Software Engineer — Saven Technologies
2017 — 2019- Built enterprise fintech back-office systems that move real money, prioritizing correctness, auditability, and reliability.
- Delivered production financial workflows as part of a distributed engineering team.
Senior Software Engineer — TabCaps
2015 — 2017- Developed healthcare software used daily by clinicians, engineering offline-first workflows resilient to unreliable connectivity.
- Shipped features against strict reliability and data-integrity requirements in a clinical setting.
Apprentice → Trainee → Junior Developer — CSR Constructions
2013 — 2015- Began engineering career building internal applications; established fundamentals in version control, code review, and production operations.
Community & Mentorship
Volunteer & Mentor — Swift-Hyderabad
2024 — Present- Mentor early-career software engineers through 1:1 guidance, code review, and technical talks.
Skills & Tools
- Languages
- Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, AWS, Google Cloud, Linux
- Build & CI/CD
- Maven, Gradle, npm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Git
- Data & Messaging
- PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, S3
- Leadership & Practice
- Technical leadership, Platform engineering, Distributed systems, Software supply-chain security, Incident response, Code review & mentorship