Summary
Rakesh Vanga is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, developer-focused systems across Meta, Microsoft, Atlassian and enterprise healthcare. He specializes in improving developer agility and on-call productivity for distributed client-server and cloud services, with measurable wins like saving 1,368 engineering hours per year and cutting incident investigation time by ~30 minutes. At Microsoft he led On-Call Productivity for Azure Redis Cache and re-architected Bridge to Kubernetes to shrink the SDK from 101 MB to 28 MB, improving adoption in remote and Codespaces scenarios. At Meta he helped prevent SEVs and built tooling to accelerate incident mitigation, and he now drives platform-level engineering work at Atlassian. Holder of a MS in Computer Science from Indiana University Bloomington, he combines operational rigor with pragmatic product thinking to reduce toil and increase service availability. Colleagues rely on him for quietly unifying divergent implementations and removing needless developer work.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
English, Telugu, Hindi