Summary
Goutham Kotapalle is a lead software engineer specializing in building and operating multi-cluster Kubernetes control planes and global traffic management for high-availability, mission-critical infrastructure. With 11 years of experience across PayPal, AWS EKS, and Cisco, he drives architecture and technical direction for large-scale, multi-cloud fleet management platforms. He combines deep distributed-systems and control-plane expertise with hands-on implementation experience in Go, container orchestration, and scheduler design. An active CNCF contributor to Volcano, he brings practical knowledge of batch/ML scheduling alongside production-grade platform work. Based in San Jose, he also mentors graduate students and has a Columbia MS in Computer Science, reflecting a blend of industry impact and academic engagement. A less obvious strength is his track record of translating research-grade scheduling concepts into production POCs and upstream contributions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.46/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 9.46/10 at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.946/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.946/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
English