Dheeraj Kodakandla

About Dheeraj Kodakandla

I’m a software engineer currently pursuing my MS in Computer Science at Penn State, with experience building backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and low-level performance tooling.Most recently, I worked on the Core Data Path team at Nutanix, where I built an eBPF-based Linux profiling framework that leverages kernel tracepoints and kprobes to analyze memory behavior and performance issues in distributed services with minimal overhead.Previously, as a Software Engineer at Zomato and ALLEN Digital, I designed and built production backend services, including authorization and user-management systems, event-driven workflows, and scalable APIs supporting large user bases.Through my academic work at Penn State, I’ve also built several systems-oriented projects, including a distributed parallel file system in C++ using gRPC, along with projects involving concurrency, networking, and distributed storage systems.More recently, I’ve also been exploring LLM reliability and evaluation, with research on logical translation using fine-tuned language models published at ISNCC 2025.I’m particularly interested in systems, distributed infrastructure, backend platforms, and large-scale software engineering.Tech Stack:C/C++, Go, Java, Python | Linux, eBPF, Kernel Tracing | Distributed Systems | gRPC, Kafka | Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB | Docker, Kubernetes, AWS | Concurrency, Networking | LLMs, PyTorch

Experience

1. Intern, Member of Technical Staff

   Nutanix

   May 2025 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

Education

• Penn State University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical Engineering