Summary
Aravinda Gangalakunta is a Full Stack Engineer with 8 years of professional experience and 5+ years focused on full-stack development, currently contributing as a developer at Tata Consultancy Services for PNC. He brings deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, having designed and migrated services to AWS, containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, and implemented real-time monitoring using Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Grafana. His background includes building resilient Spring Boot microservices, RESTful APIs for telecom protocols, and responsive front-ends with React and Redux, supported by strong TDD practices that achieved high backend coverage. As a graduate teaching assistant in cloud computing, he created reproducible developer environments with GitHub Codespaces and taught students to deploy Dockerized Hadoop clusters on AWS, reflecting an uncommon blend of hands-on engineering and mentorship. Based in Pittsburgh with a master’s in computer science (3.7 GPA) from UNC Charlotte and a strong academic record from Lovely Professional University, he pairs rigorous academic training with practical delivery at scale. He’s known for problem-solving curiosity—actively applying monitoring and ETL pipelines to shrink incident response times and simplify complex distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, 3.7, Masters, Computer Science, 3.7 at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.59, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 8.59 at Lovely Professional University
Telugu, English, Hindi