Summary
Renu Thottan is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of software and operations experience across enterprise and telecom environments. She combines a strong systems programming background in C and Java with hands-on experience in cloud services (AWS), databases (MySQL, Cassandra), and Android tooling from earlier mobile projects. At ESO she focuses on keeping services reliable and scalable, building on prior roles at T-Mobile and Tata Consultancy Services where she bridged analysis, development, and testing. Her toolset spans debugging and testing frameworks (GDB, valgrind, KLEE, JUnit) and CI-oriented workflows, reflecting a pragmatic approach to observability and quality. Academically grounded with graduate studies in computer science and a B.Tech in EEE, she also brings practical research experience in probabilistic topic modeling and real-time Android applications. Colleagues describe her as a detail-oriented operator who turns academic depth into production-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Calicut
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at The Ohio State University