Summary
Pooja Rajkumar is a Software Development Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems for companies like Amazon, GE Digital, and AppDirect. She blends strong engineering chops in Java, Go, Spring Boot, and React with a data-science background—having developed a faster, more accurate recommender system (rectools) that she presented at useR! and MMDS. At AppDirect she shipped customer-facing cart and discount features and founded an internal Women of AppDirect chapter, demonstrating both product focus and leadership. Her work spans metering and deployment automation, API design, and responsive UI components, and she frequently bridges research and production engineering. An avid coder and public speaker, Pooja brings a rare mix of academic rigor, practical delivery, and community-building to engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science minor in Technology Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science minor in Technology Management at University of California, Davis
Dougherty Valley High School