Summary
Santosh Eppalapally is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing and shipping full-stack web applications and cloud-native microservices, primarily using Node.js, React, and Java. Based in Sunnyvale, he has contributed to large-scale products at Roku (multiple tenures) and earlier built anti-piracy tooling, social graph pipelines, and ad delivery infrastructure at companies like MarkMonitor and Yahoo. He blends hands-on backend systems work—distributed services, HBase/Titan graph integrations, and Java microservices—with front-end React delivery, enabling end-to-end ownership of features from API to UI. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, he also brings research experience from Texas A&M on distributed collection management, reflecting a strong foundation in scalable data systems. Notably, he has repeatedly returned to Roku, indicating deep domain expertise and sustained impact there.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Software Product Management Certificate, Software Product Management Certificate at Product School
Stanford Continuing Studies
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Texas A&M University