Summary
Pooja Kosala is a Project Leader and software engineer with eight years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and AWS-native applications across enterprise and cloud environments. She combines deep Java and Python expertise with production experience in Spark, Hadoop, and serverless AWS services (Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, Step Functions) to deliver scalable data engineering and analytics solutions. Her background spans roles at AWS, LightBox, and Oracle, and includes hands-on ML/data projects such as an LSH-based duplicate detection pipeline built on a 50GB Spark cluster and a student retention data lake that increased retention by 3%. Comfortable across the full stack, she has also delivered BI dashboards, ETLs, and performant REST services while optimizing database and query performance. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she pairs a 3.89 MS in Computer Science from ASU with a practical knack for translating research-style prototypes into production systems. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends algorithmic rigor with operational maturity.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.89, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.89 at Arizona State University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.5/10, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 8.5/10 at Osmania University
Hindi, Telugu, English