Sairam Rekapalli
Senior Software Engineer at Calendly
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSairam Rekapalli is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of recent experience building resilient backend systems for large-scale cloud platforms. He has held senior roles at Netflix and Calendly and has deep expertise in orchestration, API gateways, and multi-datasource SQL support. An active contributor to the Spinnaker ecosystem, Sairam implemented PostgreSQL support, Liquibase migrations, multi-datasource capabilities, and plugin introspection endpoints across core repos like front50, orca, kork, clouddriver, and gate. He’s skilled at stabilizing complex distributed services—fixing test flakiness, refining webhook and expression evaluation, and adding operational endpoints that aid debugging and import/export of executions. Colleagues rely on him to translate production pain points into durable backend fixes and tooling improvements. He pairs an engineering-first mindset with practical architecture experience from both startup and enterprise contexts.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Software Systems, Masters Software Systems at University of St. Thomas
Github Skills (30)
kotlin10
api-rest10
postgresql10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
groovy10
restful-api10
webhooks10
testing10
fest10
java10
plugin10
jooq10
javas10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/kork
Nov 2019 - Nov 2020
Kork provides some basic service building blocks for Spinnaker.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 24 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Sairam primarily contributed to the `kork` repository, which provides core building blocks for the Spinnaker platform. Their work focused on enhancing SQL data source support, including implementing multi-data source capabilities and associated testing. Further contributions involved the creation of a new actuator endpoint to expose Spinnaker plugins' information, and also included util/sdk enhancements for loading YAML resources from plugin source zips, and refactoring service versioning logic.
javabuilding-blocksspinnaker
spinnaker/gate
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Spinnaker API Gateway
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sairam primarily contributed to enhancing the Spinnaker API Gateway (`spinnaker/gate`), particularly focusing on security, API functionality and plugin capabilities. Their commits demonstrate a focus on backend code with features such as configurable CORS, CRUD operations for plugin metadata. The user also worked on refactoring and dependency updates for increased stability.
api-gatewayapigolanggatewayspinnaker
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