Pavankumar Pasala
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolPavankumar Pasala is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems, currently based in San Jose and leading platform efforts at LinkedIn after a high-impact tenure at Walmart Global Tech. He architected containerized workflow orchestration and resilient Kafka I/O poller services that processed billions of daily events, cutting developer effort by 90%, halving costs, and dramatically improving productivity and scalability. Comfortable across Java, Reactor, Golang, Spring Cloud, Kafka, Cassandra, and modern front-end stacks, he builds reusable libraries, simulators, and debugging tools that accelerate teams and reduce operational toil. His work at Verizon and HPE demonstrates repeated success in high-throughput APIs, IoT device integrations, and operational automation that materially reduced manual incidents. Known for blending hands-on coding with technical leadership, he pairs measurable business impact with pragmatic engineering—often solving infrastructure limits (e.g., “infinite” Kafka scaling) rather than incremental improvements. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from San Diego State University and a consistent track record of driving platform resilience and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pre University Science (PCME), Pre University Science (PCME) at The National CollegeMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at San Diego State UniversityHigh School, High School at National High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Science at JSSATE/VTU
English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (30)
udp10
ipc10
mono10
tcp10
reactive9
reactive-kafka9
quic9
flux9
client-server9
reactor9
reactive-streams8
api8
json-api8
websocket8
http8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pavanpkp33/SDSUConnect
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
pavanpkp33/data-service
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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