Summary
Vikas Palakurthi is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining high-performance web services and legacy systems, currently serving as SMTS at Salesforce. His background spans major tech employers including Expedia Group and American Express (via TCS), and ranges from IBM Mainframe and COBOL work to cloud-native Java and Python services, Docker, and AWS. A Master’s in Computer Science from Indiana University complements hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, MongoDB, DB2), front-end frameworks, and CI/CD tooling. He has also taught Python as an associate instructor, demonstrating an ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly. Comfortable operating across the full stack, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment forged by both large-scale production systems and research-network visualization work at GlobalNOC.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 7.23/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 7.23/10 at Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.00, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.00 at Indiana University Bloomington
High School, High School at Sacred heart school
Telugu, Odia, Hindi, English