Summary
Ganesh Kudva is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, high-scale backend systems for fintech and consumer platforms. He led Chime’s migration from monolith to microservices, architecting APIs and streaming pipelines that processed millions of daily transactions and improved uptime and latency significantly. Prior roles at Gracenote and Cisco show deep expertise in distributed systems, search and messaging (Elasticsearch, Kafka), and network-facing routing/SDN concerns, blending product-facing SDK work with infrastructure engineering. Based in San Jose, he pairs hands-on coding and architecture with proven team leadership and mentorship, having managed and grown cross-functional teams of engineers. Less obvious: he combines telecom and embedded-platform experience with cloud-native design, enabling pragmatic solutions across both low-level networking and large-scale financial services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science & Engineering, BE Computer Science & Engineering at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, English