Sriram Panyam is a seasoned technical fellow and builder with over 16 years of hands-on experience across embedded systems, gaming, mobile platforms, and large-scale distributed systems, currently leading technical strategy at General Motors. He has a strong track record as a founding engineer, CTO and engineering leader at companies including Google and LinkedIn, where he led high-impact teams powering Cloud Dataflow and migrated platforms supporting hundreds of millions of profiles. His expertise spans scalable distributed architectures, service-oriented APIs, language design and platform reliability, paired with an MBA and advanced engineering degrees from the University of Melbourne. Known as a “maniacal builder and fiddler,” he blends deep systems thinking with practical tooling—authoring projects like KafkaLite—and consistently drives cost, reliability and developer productivity improvements. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems craft and product-focused leadership that accelerates both startups and Fortune-scale engineering organizations.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management, MBA Management at AGSM @ UNSW Business School
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Sriram Panyam - Technical Fellow at General Motors