Veerababu Motamarri is an accomplished Engineering Director at American Express Company with over 14 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership. Currently based in Phoenix, Arizona, he specializes in designing and delivering scalable, customer-centric platforms using modern technologies, including Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, GraphQL, and Big Data technologies.
In his current role since October 2021, Veerababu drives the vision, execution, and delivery of products that enhance customer experiences across the Membership Rewards ecosystem. He leads end-to-end engineering strategy and provides technical leadership for high-scale web experiences, serving as a hands-on thought partner in architecture reviews to shape resilient and modular systems supporting millions of transactions. His leadership extends to modernization initiatives, where he drives the decomposition of legacy systems into domain-aligned, cloud-native services while enhancing developer experience through improved tooling and automation.
Throughout his tenure at American Express, Veerababu has demonstrated exceptional technical and leadership capabilities. As a Senior Engineer from 2018 to 2021, he was a core member of the Customer360 platform, successfully migrating legacy applications to highly available and scalable reactive architecture-based microservices. His achievements include delivering Global Relationship Setup and Maintain APIs, reducing relationship setup refresh time from 48 hours to less than 10 seconds, and enabling over 15 new use cases to integrate with the C360 platform.
Before American Express, Veerababu built a strong foundation in Big Data technologies through roles at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Northern Illinois University, Infosys Limited, and Virtusa Consulting Services. His experience spans the complete Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS, Spark, Hive, HBase, and MapReduce, along with expertise in migrating legacy mainframe systems to modern Big Data platforms.
Veerababu holds a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Northern Illinois University with a 3.98 GPA and a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. He is an Oracle Certified Java Programmer and holds certification in Business Analytics using SAP Software.
His contributions have been widely recognized, including being a patent winner, selected as one of only 78 Technology Platinum Genius Medal Winners at American Express, and a recipient of multiple performance excellence awards throughout his career. Beyond his technical accomplishments, Veerababu is known for his collaborative leadership, mentoring capabilities, and active involvement in employee engagement initiatives, having served as Vice President of the Indian Students Association and participating in various community and professional development activities.