Summary
Pavankumar Pasala is a results-focused staff software engineer based in San Jose, California, with 9 years of experience architecting and delivering scalable distributed systems for global platforms. He currently serves as Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, following leadership of Walmart Global Tech initiatives that processed ~2 billion daily workflows and included a cutting-edge containerized orchestration service built with Java Reactor, Kafka, and Cassandra. That work cut developer effort by 90%, reduced costs by 50%, and boosted productivity by 60%, while delivering an infinite-scaling Kafka I/O poller that decoupled infrastructure dependencies. Earlier at Verizon Labs he built high-throughput REST APIs and messaging systems for 21 million IoT devices, and created reusable logging and UI tooling to boost efficiency. Pavankumar is proficient across Java, Reactor, Golang, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS, Angular, and Node.js, with a knack for delivering reusable libraries and frameworks at scale. He holds an MS in Computer Science from San Diego State University and a BE in Information Science, and has earned awards such as Walmart's Bravo Award and HP Enterprise Process Champion for driving tangible cost savings and performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Science at JSSATE/VTU
San Diego State University
High School, 91.50%, High School, 91.50% at National High School
Pre University, Science (PCME), 91.52%, Pre University, Science (PCME), 91.52% at The National College
English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu