Giridhar Pottepalem
Staff Software Engineer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGiridhar Pottepalem is a Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience and nine years in senior engineering roles, currently leading JVM-based architecture and delivery at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He combines low-level C/C++ roots with deep expertise in Java, Groovy, Spring, Grails and Hibernate to craft simplified, test-driven, service- and resource-oriented systems and CI/CD pipelines. Having held principal and senior engineering roles across fintech, ad tech, and healthcare startups, he excels at translating complex domain needs into pragmatic, maintainable JVM designs. Beyond engineering, he brings an artist’s sensibility to problem solving, which informs his focus on clean design and developer ergonomics. Based in Massachusetts, he blends disciplined architecture with a practical, hands-on approach to mentoring teams and shipping reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Intermediate at Andhra Loyola CollegeJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad10th Grade, 10th Grade at Andhra Pradesh residential School KodigenahalliBachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Technology at Nagarjuna University
English, Telugu
Stackoverflow
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328reached
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Github Skills (21)
rest6
spring-boot6
grails6
security6
intellij-idea6
java6
rest-api5
api5
restful5
restful-api4
grails-plugin4
spring4
maven4
boot3
plugin3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gpottepalem/boot-graalvm
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Spring Boot REST application which can be built to "native Java"
Contributions:26 PRs, 33 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 6 months
bootgraalvmjavajava21maven
gpottepalem/giri-api
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 20 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 5 months
apiapi-applicationrestfulrestgrails
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