Summary
Vijay Midde is a Staff Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, highly available systems and developer infrastructure across PayPal, Salesforce, and You.com. He excels in backend services using Java, Node.js, Python, Go and has driven measurable impact—e.g., reducing GitHub load by 70% and managing a Jenkins CI fleet of thousands. Vijay blends full-stack sensibility with security and open-source interests, and has led teams from senior engineer to principal roles while owning architecture and delivery. His background includes designing production HA/DR artifact repositories and ML-powered error-classification services that improved developer reliability. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic training from IIT Hyderabad and Stony Brook with hands-on infrastructure craftsmanship. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex operational challenges into scalable, automatable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Hindi, Telugu, English