Pavithra Shetty is a Director of Product Engineering based in Riyadh with 11 years of hands-on experience in software development, architecture, and technical leadership. She has led full lifecycle transformations—from modernizing legacy Java and PHP monoliths to designing polyglot microservices and cloud-native infrastructures on AWS. At KAPSARC she moved from Lead Developer to Director, bringing a pragmatic blend of coding, architecture, and product-thinking to mission-driven engineering. Previously she built and scaled revenue-generating products and engineering teams, driving backend frameworks, APIs, and UI modernization efforts. Known for mentoring engineers and defining development practices, she balances technical depth across web2 and emerging web3 stacks with strong operational chops (CI/CD, monitoring, DB clusters). Her career shows a consistent pattern of turning complex legacy systems into scalable, maintainable platforms while growing engineering capability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Manipal Institute of Technology
A webcomponent implementation of elastic search-ui using Lit-Element
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 month
lit-elementlitsearch-uiweb-componentselastic
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Pavithra Shetty - Director Of Product Engineering at KAPSARC