Summary
Dheeraj Pailla is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building and migrating large-scale distributed systems, currently driving Sam’s Club membership migration from a monolith REST service to GraphQL microservices at Walmart Global Tech. He previously contributed to Amazon’s Datapath Responder platform, where he implemented chaos tests, one-box pipelines, and an emergency host migration that preserved service during Prime Day. Comfortable across full-stack and DevOps toolchains, he codes in Go, React, Django, and Docker and designs CI/CD pipelines for production reliability. His academic background (MS in Computational Science & Engineering from Georgia Tech) complements research work in social computing, resulting in publications at ICWSM and WebSci. Early career projects include computer vision deployments on edge devices and production NLP/search pipelines for enterprise clients, showing a blend of applied ML and engineering pragmatism. Based in San Jose, he brings a research-informed approach to practical, high-availability systems engineering.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Honours), Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology