Ravi Terala
Sr. Engineering Manager at GEICO
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavi Terala is a senior engineering manager with nearly three decades of hands-on software experience and 11 years in leadership roles, currently building a high-volume, low-latency tag management platform at GEICO. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale, cloud-native web and mobile systems—from a 25M-user visual voicemail app at T-Mobile to Kafka-backed event platforms and multi-tenant Airflow schedulers at Nordstrom. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering (Go, Java, Kotlin, React) and strategic execution, he drives observability, feature-flagging, and on-call practices to improve reliability and delivery cadence. Ravi is known for taking on hard, high-impact problems, reorganizing teams for trust and accountability, and achieving measurable business outcomes like 10x faster vendor onboarding. His background spans telecom, OS, dev tools, SaaS, and data center telemetry, giving him uncommon depth in both embedded systems and cloud-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Minnesota DuluthBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Osmania University
Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (69)
reverse-proxy10
identity10
authentication10
proxy10
oauth2-proxy10
sso-authentication10
validation10
slice10
azure10
translation10
openid-connect10
cloud-infrastructure10
authorization10
error-handling10
openid10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
terala/mac-setup
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Scripts to setup mac development environment.
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 11 months
macdevelopment-environmentdotfilesmacosmac-setup
terala/linux-setup
Jun 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 8 branches, 2 issues in 3 years 6 months
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