Tejaswi Kandula
Seattle,WA
Summary
Experienced software engineer with expertise in building distributed, cloud-native applications, microservices, and secure remote access solutions. Proficient in Azure and API development.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer – Azure Bastion Team
Microsoft
11.2021 - Current
- Built and maintained Azure Bastion features enabling secure RDP/SSH access to Virtual Machines for thousands of global enterprises.
- Delivered SSH and RDP Entra ID authentication to GA across all public Azure regions, serving thousands of enterprise customers with no reported incidents post-launch.
- Led RDP Entra ID login validation for Windows VMs, developing and integrating frontend changes using React.
- Contributed RSA SHA2 certificate-based authentication to the libssh2 open-source library in C, enhancing compatibility with OpenSSH standards and contributed to other open-source libraries also used by millions globally.
- Led security policy rollouts across hundreds of subscriptions, automating VM extension compliance with Azure Policy.
- Investigated and resolved 100+ live-site CRIs, achieving 100% SLA adherence through cross-team collaboration.
- Authored troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, and provided operational support for internal and external teams.
- Performed network-level debugging, including packet capture and protocol troubleshooting for RDP and SSH.
Software Engineer
NCR Corporation
06.2018 - 11.2021
- Designed, developed, and maintained enterprise banking APIs and applications.
- Led modernization of legacy banking APIs into microservices, improving response times by 10% for 100M+ end users.
- Developed client-specific adapters enabling secure third-party API integrations for enterprise banking partners.
- Automated production SQL issue resolutions impacting millions of financial transactions daily.
Software Developer
University of Nebraska Omaha
01.2017 - 05.2018
- Built and deployed web-based transit management tools used by 170+ operators, reducing manual tasks by 60%.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs powering AJAX-based web interactions, deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Nebraska
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Skills
- Programming: Java, C, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, React, Python, SQL, Shell Scripting
- Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Big Data/Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Hadoop
- Frameworks/Servers: Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, Hibernate, Apache Camel, Maven, Gradle, Angular, JMS, JPA, JUnit, Mockito, Django, Laravel, Tomcat, Log4j, SLF4J
- Tools: IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio, RabbitMQ, Docker, Travis CI, Postman, Selenium, PhpStorm, Git
Timeline
Software Engineer – Azure Bastion Team
Microsoft
11.2021 - Current
Software Engineer
NCR Corporation
06.2018 - 11.2021
Software Developer
University of Nebraska Omaha
01.2017 - 05.2018
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Nebraska
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Acharya Nagarjuna University
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