Sai Gandikota is a Solutions Architect with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable cloud platforms and developer experiences, currently leading internal developer portal initiatives using Spotify Backstage at Tata Consultancy Services. He blends Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevOps automation to deliver end-to-end platforms—creating custom Backstage extensions, scaffolder modules, and CI/CD pipelines that improve developer productivity and reduce operational costs. A practical full-stack engineer, he pairs React frontends and Node.js microservices with platform engineering practices and cloud security to ship reliable systems. Sai contributes to the notable open-source Backstage project (including a New Relic dashboard plugin) and is actively expanding his AI/ML expertise to architect AI-powered platform features in the near future.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Sri Balaji Vidyalayam English Medium High School, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
Master's degree, Master's degree at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Mechanical Engineering at Jobs in Tamil Nadu India
+2 MATHS PHYSICCHEMISTRY, +2 MATHS PHYSICCHEMISTRY at NARAYANA JUNIOR COLLEGE , NELLORE
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sai primarily contributed to the `newrelic-dashboard` plugin within the Backstage framework. Their work included adding authentication for the New Relic API by appending authorization tokens, refactoring the plugin to leverage the `FetchApi` for API calls, and modifying plugin dependencies. The user also addressed minor formatting issues. Furthermore, the user contributed to refactoring the report issue template within the `techdocs-module-addons-contrib` plugin, which involved updating the documentation feedback process.
Contributions:5 PRs, 35 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 1 month
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Sai Gandikota - Solutions Architect Internal Developer Portal Spotify Backstage at Tata Consultancy Services