Pradeep Kumar

Product Architecture - Veza (A ServiceNow Company)

Aptos, California, United States

About

A senior-level engineer that has been implementing DevOps methodologies before ‘DevOps’ was a coined term. At Netflix, developed end-user tooling and ran campaigns that drove adoption rate of internally supported and newer OpenID Connect and OAuth2 frameworks from 10% to 95% and away from older, unsupported SAML-based and Active Directory/OpenLDAP-based systems. Conversely, the efforts also reduced enterprise directory licensing costs ten-fold and saved engineering time. Continuously pushing for the best way to raise the bar, especially when it requires stepping back, simplifying and requiring less code. As a seasoned veteran in the field, it is increasingly evident that the best code is no code. My mission is in striving for the crossroads of simplicity in solutions, minimal maintenance and maximum performance, even if those vectors are in opposition.

Experience

  • Outbound Product Manager at ServiceNow
    Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

  • Product Architecture at Veza
    2025 - 2026 · 1 yr

  • Customer Advisory Board at Okta
    Jul 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Director - Identity and Productivity Automation at CrowdStrike
    Sep 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs

  • Owner at Freelance
    2025 - 2025 · Less than a year

    Freelance work: - Engineered cross-platform mobile application using Flutter and Tauri, integrating sensor-based data capture and specialized UX modes. - Developed an iOS forensic data application , leveraging device hardware sensors and the Secure Enclave to detect and log high-G force and atmospheric anomalies with cryptographic integrity. - Implemented local LLM/SLM integrations (Gemma, MobileLLM-Pro) and built a privacy-first mobile app including a secure, on-device (mobile) AI agent chat service. - Creative Direction: Designed and prototyped assets for an immersive game concept leveraging AI-driven world-building and narrative design.