Kiran Pathakota
Builder at Sift
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Pathakota is a builder and technical leader with 14 years of experience shipping consumer wearables and connected devices, combining firmware, connectivity, mobile and cloud expertise. Based in Portland, he has driven product roadmaps and launches across Amazon (Echo Loop, Alexa mobile accessories), Microsoft (Bluetooth LE and Windows mobile features) and Facebook’s AR/VR efforts, smoothly bridging hardware, software and go-to-market challenges. He frequently operates at the intersection of program management and hands-on technical coordination—aligning vendors, cross-functional partners and engineering teams to deliver first-of-kind devices. As a founder and principal consultant he now helps early-stage efforts scale while exploring new stealth projects, bringing both startup grit and large-company process discipline. Notably, his background includes founding a device-focused program at Amazon that integrated firmware to cloud end-to-end and early advocacy for BLE peripheral APIs at Microsoft, evidence of a long-term focus on connectivity-first product design.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice UniversityHigh School, High School at NAFL
Kannada, Telugu, French
Github Skills (44)
markdown10
static-site-generator10
react-bootstrap10
knowledge-management10
vscode10
perfect9
deploying9
uwp9
aws9
sst9
api9
react-router9
serverless8
python8
aws-lambda8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kpathakota/kpats-vault-public
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
kpathakota/kpats-vault
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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