Raviteja Pothana
Senior Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRaviteja Pothana is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years’ experience building secure, pragmatic backend systems across security and payments domains, currently contributing at CrowdStrike from the UK. He blends strong systems and Linux expertise with Go and machine learning interests, and has led teams as a technical lead at GoCardless. Raviteja is an active open-source contributor — notably adding preview API support to the widely used google/go-github library and improving test and build tooling in Hyperledger’s plenum project — reflecting a focus on API correctness and distributed systems behavior. His background includes multi-year tenures at Salesforce and Evernym, where he delivered production-grade services and protocol work. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented about security and APIs yet pragmatic in shipping reliable code. Outside work he balances code with long runs, coffee, and music, which he credits for sustaining deep focus.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
H.S.C, Mathematics Physics Chemistry, H.S.C, Mathematics Physics Chemistry at Sri Chaitanya Junior CollegeS.S.C, S.S.C at Sri Vivekananda Vidya NiketanBachelor of Technology, Information Technology, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, First Class with Distinction at J.B Institute Of Engineering & Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (22)
github10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
go10
api10
github-api10
golang10
async9
ubuntu9
asynchronous9
wget9
ansible9
curl9
documentation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-indy/indy-plenum
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Plenum Byzantine Fault Tolerant Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Raviteja primarily contributed to the `indy-plenum` project by modifying tutorial code, specifically adjusting node behavior to send incorrect responses for testing purposes. They made a key change to resolve an unused parameter in the CLI and updated the README. Furthermore, they renamed "Zeno" to "Plenum" across the codebase and adjusted the build configuration files. Finally, the user addressed the event loop configuration in `plenum/common/looper.py`.
fault-tolerantindy
google/go-github
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 29 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Raviteja primarily contributed to the `go-github` repository by adding support for preview APIs. These changes include implementing new features related to repository topics, team review requests, and Git signing. The user updated existing methods to include necessary "Accept" headers for the preview API endpoints and created new methods for interacting with the GitHub API's preview features, thereby enhancing the library's functionality and aligning it with the evolving GitHub API.
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