Sudheesh Singanamalla is a senior software engineer and PhD-trained researcher with 13 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed systems and network measurement platforms, now based in Cupertino and currently at Apple after a recent Netflix stint. He blends hands-on engineering—from backend APIs and blockchain block-decoding to front-end localization—with academic rigor, having published peer-reviewed work on secure distributed systems and internet measurement. His recent work at Netflix and Cloudflare focused on observability, network acceleration, and privacy-preserving internet measurement at scale, while earlier contributions include notable open-source projects like loklak_server and Hyperledger Fabric SDK. Comfortable shipping cross-functional projects end-to-end, he also has a track record of improving developer tooling and CI/CD, and making complex systems accessible across languages and regions. An interdisciplinary thinker, he leverages research-grade methods to solve real-world infrastructure problems and often surfaces pragmatic engineering fixes alongside novel designs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Delhi Public School - Kuwait
Technology Entrepreneurship & Product Design, Technology Entrepreneurship & Product Design at Indian School of Business
Distributed Open Source twitter and social media message search server that anonymously collects, shares, dumps and indexes data http://api.loklak.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 175 commits, 160 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sudheesh contributed to the back-end functionality and API documentation of the loklak_server project. They fixed issues with the API, including inconsistent UI changes and JSON response structures for the status API. Furthermore, the user added several features like supporting the NMEA and CSV data ingestion, integrated it into the LQL App and added an XML2JSON API endpoint. This involved modifications to existing servlet files.
Ask not what Mozilla can do for you but what you can do for Mozilla.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Contributions:12 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sudheesh's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the user interface's language support. They added options for multiple languages, including Telugu, Hindi, and Arabic, to the index.html file. Furthermore, the user fixed issues and added strings related to the Bugzilla and NSS fixes. This suggests a focus on making the application accessible to a global audience.
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Sudheesh Singanamalla - Senior Software Engineer at Apple