Hithendra Gundrathi

About Hithendra Gundrathi

I’m a Backend Engineering Manager with over 14 years of experience building, scaling, and leading high-performance backend systems in the online gaming industry. My expertise lies at the intersection of technology, people, and product—where distributed systems meet business outcomes.I’ve led large-scale cloud migrations, moving gaming platforms from on-premise to AWS, while architecting cloud-native, microservices-driven ecosystems built on Java, Spring Boot, Netty, RabbitMQ, and Hazelcast. My focus has been on driving high availability, low-latency performance, and resilient system design to power real-time gaming experiences.As a hands-on leader, I’ve mentored and managed an engineering team, fostering a culture of technical ownership, open collaboration, and engineering excellence. I’m passionate about building loosely coupled, event-driven architectures, enabling faster iteration, safer deployments, and scalable system evolution.I thrive on solving complex scalability challenges, optimizing infrastructure, and implementing customized blue-green deployments for seamless releases. My leadership philosophy revolves around empowering teams to deliver measurable business impact—balancing innovation, stability, and execution discipline.Always open to discussions around distributed system design, backend scalability, cloud modernization, and engineering leadership best practices.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Head Digital Works

   Apr 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Vignan Institute of Technology & Science

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2005 — 2009