Pooja Rallabhandi
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPooja Rallabhandi is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and delivering low-latency, reliable distributed systems and platform products at scale. She has driven architecture and cross-team initiatives across companies like Microsoft and Ticketmaster, spanning platform engineering, data and search systems, and applied AI. At Microsoft she led the Viva Engage and Answers in Viva efforts, integrating GenAI to improve knowledge discovery and organizational communications, and at Ticketmaster she reduced fraud-detection latency by 80% with Kafka Streams. Known for turning ambiguous problems into production-ready solutions, she combines hands-on implementation (Java, Kafka, Kubernetes) with strong mentoring and public speaking on streaming systems. Based in Austin, she blends deep systems engineering with product-focused leadership to ship measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S) Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi
Github Skills (3)
portal7
django6
react5
Github contributions (5)
poojaRal/thesisSurveyApp
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
promisasu/Portal
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:191 commits, 100 PRs, 146 pushes in 7 months
reactdjangoportalsurveysclinician
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