Summary
Saitharun Thodupunuru is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with five years of experience building large-scale backend systems and identity infrastructure, currently helping secure Microsoft’s identity platform serving 100M+ daily users. He has a strong track record in distributed systems, cloud migrations, and IAM—having architected an IAM product for Scality, implemented key-rotation for KMS, and migrated critical e-commerce services to Azure at Walmart. Saitharun combines practical systems design (Cassandra/LWT, Paxos-based unique ID generation, Redis Sentinel) with production-grade Java/Spring engineering and Kafka streaming. He holds a high-achieving academic background (M.S. 3.92) and consistently moves complex security and storage problems into reliable, maintainable production services. An engineer comfortable leading cross-team efforts, he brings both implementation depth and a focus on operational resilience to identity and storage challenges.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 3.8 at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad
Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, 3.92, Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, 3.92 at University of North Texas
English, Telugu, Hindi