Venkata Surya Pratap Karri
About Venkata Surya Pratap Karri
Venkata Surya Pratap Karri is a Lead Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Thomson Reuters, where he has worked since 2019. He has extensive experience in software development and cloud technologies, with a background that includes roles at HP, Broadridge, and UnitedHealth Group.
Work at Thomson Reuters
Venkata Surya Pratap Karri has been employed at Thomson Reuters since 2019, serving as a Lead Software Engineer and Tech Lead. In this role, he has contributed significantly to various projects, including the migration of people data from a legacy LPA system to the cloud utilizing AWS technologies. He also designed and developed a new versioning library for applications within the Authorities space. Prior to his current position, he worked as a Senior Big Data Consultant at Thomson Reuters from 2016 to 2019, where he developed a central storage library with APIs for managing and reading data in Glue tables.
Previous Employment Experience
Before joining Thomson Reuters, Venkata Surya Pratap Karri held several positions in the technology sector. He worked at HP as a Development Support Analyst from 2004 to 2007. He later joined Broadridge, where he served as a Senior Member of Technical Staff from 2010 to 2013 and as a Technology Lead from 2013 to 2016. He also had a brief tenure at UnitedHealth Group as a Senior Software Engineer in 2016. Additionally, he worked at ProKarma as a Software Engineer from 2008 to 2010.
Education and Expertise
Venkata Surya Pratap Karri earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science and Statistics from Andhra University, where he studied from 1999 to 2002. He further enhanced his expertise by completing a Certification Program in Engineering Excellence in Big Data Analytics and Hadoop at the International School of Engineering (INSOFE) in 2014.
Technical Contributions and Projects
Throughout his career, Venkata Surya Pratap Karri has made notable technical contributions. At Thomson Reuters, he created a framework to parse and load people data from the Legal Professional Authority to RDS using AWS Glue. He has also developed Maven build scripts, YML configurations, and Jenkins build scripts for automated deployment across environments. His work has included solving auto-scaling issues in RDS, which improved application speed while reducing infrastructure costs.