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Ravindranath Kakarla

Seattle,WA

Summary

Passionate Lead Software Developer with 12+ years of experience in delivering high quality software. Strong in computer science fundamentals, system design, algorithms and lean software development. Fast learner with experience in versatile software technologies; Cloud architectures, Open source development, Performant client software, Big Data Processing, AI/ML, Search technologies, AWS and large scale distributed computing. Considered talented leader in building strong technical teams.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III)

Amazon Inc
12.2018 - Current
  • Led multiple cross-team S-Team goals in AWS streaming and Amazon retail Customer Service organizations and delivered them successfully.
  • Led four teams in successfully delivering multiple tier-1 data services for AWS; Managed Kafka Connect, low-latency Kafka Replication across regions; AWS Schema Registry service;
  • Established processes to ensure high software bar among teams. Mentored and grew multiple developers in their roles.
  • Contributed to open-source projects like Avro, Redhat, Square and JSON Schema. Designed and implemented specifications for JSON and Protobuf schema evolution rules.
  • Led development of Amazon retail return policy enforcement framework with team of 8 developers which lead to deprecation of 12-year old legacy application supporting multi-million dollar savings.

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon India
11.2016 - 12.2018
  • Led design and delivery of large-scale distributed processing system that runs millions of Customer Service actions reliably and efficiently. The system helped scale Amazon Customer Service scale to handle peak loads of 10 million customer actions per day.
  • Designed framework on top of Spark for data scientists to experiment, author and publish anomaly detection statistical and ML models for Amazon Customer Service.
  • The framework is used to run complex statistical models that generate $300M+ yearly savings for Amazon.

Software Development Engineer I

Amazon India
04.2015 - 11.2016
  • Developed alerting plugins for ElasticSearch for Amazon retail organizations to identify operational defects.
  • Implemented multiple time-sensitive critical features in Customer refund issuance systems resulting in $2M savings.

Dev. Ops Engineer (II and III)

Amazon India
06.2012 - 04.2015
  • Designed and delivered automated troubleshooting system that analyzes logs and invokes web-services to identify solutions to customer problems. This system helped reduce 9000+ operational tickets for developer teams per year.
  • Built many self-service tools using RubyOnRails, Python and JS to help team reduce operational pain and improve developer productivity. Worked on troubleshooting production systems and solved many critical bugs that were causing bad customer experience and operational pain

Contract Software Developer

Google Inc.
04.2011 - 08.2012
  • Selected among 4000+ students from across the world to work on open source platforms Elgg and Open Lighting.
  • Created web interfaces using Javascript that made webpages more responsive. This greatly improved experience for Elgg users. The project also received accolades from users.
  • Successfully completed open lighting project by building testing framework for lighting devices in Python and JavaScript. This helped open lighting project make quality releases.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Gandhi Institute of Technology &Management (GITAM) University
Visakhapatnam, India
04.2012

Skills

  • Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Designing highly resilient large scale distributed systems
  • Application of design patterns and principles
  • Ensuring high bar with design and code reviews
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, Javascript
  • Teamwork, Cross-team Collaboration and mentoring
  • Open-source contributions

Contributions

Open Source: https://github.com/blacktooth

Patents: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/ravindra-nath-kakarla

Timeline

Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III)

Amazon Inc
12.2018 - Current

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon India
11.2016 - 12.2018

Software Development Engineer I

Amazon India
04.2015 - 11.2016

Dev. Ops Engineer (II and III)

Amazon India
06.2012 - 04.2015

Contract Software Developer

Google Inc.
04.2011 - 08.2012

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Gandhi Institute of Technology &Management (GITAM) University

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