Summary
Kesava Mallela is a Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 11+ years building production web platforms and UX-driven interfaces, currently shaping AppleCare properties and front-end tooling at Apple. He blends deep UI engineering (React/Vue/Angular, HTML5/CSS3, accessibility) with compiler and language interests, having written Babel plugins, rich-text parsers, linters and developer tooling to improve team velocity. His background spans real-time systems and analytics—from streaming vitals and Ruby websocket services to big-data HRV batch optimizations—plus robust backend experience with Redis, Kafka, MySQL and Hadoop. Trained in computer science and information management, he pairs formal rigor (OCaml, Clojure, mathematics) with pragmatic product design skills in interaction design, usability testing and prototyping. Known for leading cross-functional teams and vendor engineers, he quietly bridges low-level language curiosity with high-impact user-facing product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
MIMS, MIMS at UC Berkeley School of Information
MSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at Birla Institute of Technology and Science