Summary
Kesava Mallela is a staff software engineer at Apple with over a decade of experience delivering scalable front-end architectures and developer tooling. He combines hands-on software engineering with UX and interaction design, leading vendor UI engineers and building Babel plugins, rich-text editors, and linters to improve developer and user experiences. His work spans architecting AppleCare properties and cross-domain collaboration at Apple, as well as real-time data streaming and visualization systems at Vital Connect. Based in Sunnyvale, California, he holds an MSc in Mathematics and a BE in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani), along with an MIMS from UC Berkeley, underscoring a strong analytical foundation. His tech stack spans JavaScript/ES6, Ruby, Clojure, OCaml, with React, Vue, Angular, Rails, Node.js, and a robust set of data and infrastructure tools, all within UNIX environments. He excels at translating complex requirements into practical, scalable interfaces and systems, and is an active, cross-functional collaborator who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
MIMS, MIMS at UC Berkeley School of Information
MSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science