Summary
Veera Pendyala is a senior software engineer with over 15 years of experience building high-throughput, scalable systems across security, data, and web platforms. Based in San Jose, she has driven data engineering and backend architecture at companies like NVIDIA, Walmart Global Tech, NerdWallet and Proofpoint, specializing in Python, Go, Kafka, NoSQL stores (Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) and caching with Redis/Aerospike. She has a strong track record designing efficient algorithms and production services—handling pipelines that processed tens of millions of messages per day and implementing SCD Type-2 patterns in Snowflake for analytics. Her background spans full lifecycle delivery from requirements and architecture to testing (unit, integration, UAT), and she pairs hands-on coding with system-level thinking about scalability and reliability. A lifelong learner, she is self-teaching machine learning and exploring async Python, PySpark and metaprogramming to broaden her data and platform toolset. Notably, her early academic work produced optimized geospatial routing and cryptography projects, reflecting a rare blend of algorithmic depth and production-grade engineering.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics Physics and Chemistry, High School Mathematics Physics and Chemistry at Narayana
Bachelor's of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering at Chaitanya Engineering College
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at Indiana State University
Telugu, English