Praveen Bathala — Senior Software Engineer

01 — About

I'm a senior engineer with a deep focus on distributed systems, big data infrastructure, and cloud-scale architectures. My work sits at the intersection of performance and reliability—building systems that don't just function, but endure.

Over 15 years, I've touched every layer of the stack: from key-value stores and stream processing platforms to cybersecurity data pipelines and developer tooling. I enjoy the complexity that comes with systems at scale, and I take equal pride in clean architecture and elegant code.

I believe the best engineering decisions are ones that make future decisions easier.

15+

Years of industry experience

Events / week processed at CrowdStrike

90%

Resource reduction on Uber streaming platform

02 — Experience

Where I've worked

Feb 2023 — Present CrowdStrike

Senior Software Engineer

Working on Falcon Foundry, an application development platform for cybersecurity that integrates third-party data with CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform. Enabling customers to build rich, connected workflows across their security stack.

May 2021 — Feb 2023 Abnormal Security

Staff Software Engineer

Lead engineer for the Product Engineering org. Redesigned the Threat Log backend for thousands of customers. Architected an Audit Logging service, improved service reliability via event-driven patterns, and designed a maintainable email remediation rules engine.

Apr 2017 — May 2021 CrowdStrike

Senior Software Engineer — ThreatGraph

Scaled a system processing 4 trillion events/week from endpoints globally. Redesigned the Detections Pipeline, built a DSL for data onboarding, migrated to Docker/Kubernetes, and created an Elasticsearch smart client with zero-downtime cluster failover.

Oct 2015 — Apr 2017 Uber

Software Engineer II — Data Infrastructure

Built real-time time-series data infrastructure for Uber's business-critical operations. Replaced a Spark streaming platform with a Kafka-based system in Go — achieving 90% resource reduction and sub-second latency at 10× throughput.

Nov 2012 — Oct 2015 eBay

Senior Software Engineer — Search

Drove Geo expansion for eBay search (Russian market). Migrated to the Cassini search engine while supporting legacy systems. Worked across the full search stack from frontend to relevance science.

Apr 2010 — Nov 2012 Nokia

Software Engineer

Built a distributed high-performance key-value store based on Project Voldemort. Designed cross-datacenter replication notification system and contributed cluster rebalancing improvements back to the open-source community.

Praveen
Bathala

Where I've worked

Technologies & Tools

Certifications

Interests