Mahesh Kondla

About Mahesh Kondla

Results oriented engineering leader with experience building complex, highly scalable, and highly available software systems to support millions of users everyday: Unique experience leading teams across the globe in a variety of industries - Social Networking, Cloud systems, Ads systems, eCommerce, Supply Chain Management, Shipping Solutions, and Enterprise Server Development: Experience negotiating with partner/client companies on contracts/pricing and project deliverables: Experienced in cloud & web technologies, distributed systems, and project management (Agile/Scrum). Executed complex projects from inception to production deployments and maintenance - working with biz dev, product, design, marketing, data science, business analytics, security, infrastructure, operations, tech support, CI/CD, and quality engineering teams: Experienced in working on Horizontal initiatives with cross team collaboration in both onsite and offshore locations: Passionate about building teams with talented software engineers/architects/managers that scale on the foundation of team work, integrity, harmony, creativity, and fun: Mentored managers/team leads/interns and set them up for success by coaching, guiding, and setting clear expectations with measurable goals: Leadership skills - Strategic Thinking, Annual/Quarterly Roadmaps, Data driven Prioritization, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Software Architecture, Engineering Best Practices, Engineering/Operational Excellence, Talent Acquisition/Hiring, Mentoring, Diversity and Inclusion, Evangelize company culture: Technologies - Saas Applications/Platforms, Distributed Systems, Analytics, Data Streaming, Backend/Offline systems, Microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, REST/GraphQL APIs, Istio, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Elasticsearch, AWS (IAM, S3, EC2, EBS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, RDS, EMR, Glue, Athena), Airflow, Apache Pinot (OLAP), MongoDB, Espresso (Document Store), Samza (Stream Aggregator), Protobuf/JSON, Redis, Couchbase, Big Data, Data Platform(data lake), Hadoop/HDFS, Hive, Pig, Spark, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Java, Python, Golang, Spring, Git, Bitbucket, SumoLogic, DataDog, New Relic, SonarQube, Jenkins.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Shippo

   Jan 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   At Shippo, we are powering e-commerce platforms/SMBs to help deliver the shipping experiences today\'s consumers expect. Building a \"Shipping Layer of the Internet\" platform to streamline the shipping process between SMBs, e-commerce platforms (Amazon, eBay, Facebook Shops, Shopify, Square, Wix, Etsy, WooCommerce, GoDaddy, etc.) and Domestic/International Carriers (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post, Royal Mail, more).+ Collaborating with eCommerce partners (BizDev, Product, and Engineering stakeholders) on business/engineering deliverables.+ Strategize and Plan Annual & Quarterly roadmaps with cross-team collaboration (Product, Engineering, Data Science, CX teams) while taking calculated risks. Define team charters and execute.+ Building scalable & highly available Multi-tenant Cloud Platform Solutions (backend/offline systems, API integrations, SSO, and DevX) to connect eCommerce platforms and shipping carriers with SaaS solutions.+ Prioritized Engineering and Operational excellence; Reduced MTTD and MTTR.+ Set the technical direction, reduced tech debt, and improved observability.+ Member of Architects group to review and evangelize Engineering Best Practices and Scalable Systems Design across Engineering Org.+ Negotiated contracts and pricing with Okta and Ping Identity.+ Expanded platform engineering team from one to four teams (Engineering managers, Architects, Team Leads, and other ICs) spanned across the USA, Ireland, Brazil, and India.+ Mentoring team members / groomed them to grow in their careers by providing challenges and opportunities.+ Member of Shippo\'s Culture Committee promoting Compassion, Empathy, Growth mindset, Leadership, Communication, Ownership, Craftsmanship, and Having Fun.+ Technologies: AWS, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Memcache, Elasticsearch, Istio, JWT, REST/GraphQL APIs, Go, python, gRPC, Protobuf, NSQ, PostgreSQL, Sumologic, New Relic, Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, PingIdentity, Open Source technologies, Agile/Scrum.

Education

• San José State University

  MBA

• National Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

  GNIIT, Software Technology & Systems Management

• Osmania University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Skills

• Hadoop
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Rest
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Spring Framework
• Software Design
• Distributed Systems
• Spring
• Web Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Technical Leadership
• Team Mentoring
• Soa
• Software Development
• Java
• Sql