Srinandan Kota

About Srinandan Kota

I am a graduate student of Iowa State University of Science and Technology with a Masters in Computer Engineering. My work experience over the years includes diverse areas such as Web platform development, Rest API development, Microservices, Databases, Data collection and analysis, Machine learning and Software engineering. I have developed the following industry skills over the years-Languages : Java, Python, C/C++, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP Platforms/ Ecosystems : LAMP, AWS, Elastic search and MongoDBMachine learning/ Data science packages: pandas, Keras/TensorFlow, NumPy, matplotlibFrameworks : Spring boot, Spring JPA, Hibernate, JUnit/ Mockito/ Power Mock, Spring Reactive, Spock, Groovy, Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase) and Apache Spark Tools: Intellij, Maven, Swagger, Postman, Jenkins, Kafka, Sonar, NequsMQ, AppDynamics, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket (Git), Eclipse, Elastic stack, Dbeaver, Rancher (Kubernetes), Dataflix(Logging tool), Elastic Stack, Thymeleaf, Rundeck, phpmyadmin, XAMPP, Spyder, Virtual Box (Oracle), Cloudera VM, Agilefant, Jupyter, Ipython, Python IDLE, scikit-learn, PuTTy, Weka and other toolsSoftware methodologies: Agile development (SCRUM), Test Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD practices, API First My current interests are in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Web platform development, Big Data and Cloud platform development.

Experience

1. Senior Associate Engineer, Product Software

   Equinix

   Aug 2019 — Present · US

   Network Edge- Web marketplace with virtual network products on the edge for instant deployment and interconnection of network servicesResponsible for requirements gathering, planning project timelines, scoping and prioritizing tasks in a CI/CD environment; Demonstrated POCs and features to multiple stake holders and teams as part of agile ceremonies across multiple releasesDesigned scalable, robust and fault tolerant applications for customer facing back-end RESTful web services; Integrated with third party services (ServiceNow, Optiv, Tibco, Siebel); Involved in refactoring of heavy weight Microservice to multiple microservices and porting to AWSPerformed unit and integration tests and contributed to all phases of SDLC cycle; Fixed major bugs pre-emptively in SIT, UAT and ProductionProvided developer support for customer calls; Debugged complex situations of different severity levels in ProductionCreated documentation for product teams, collaborated with CRE, SRE and cross functional teams across geographies and mentored internsFeatures supported around increase in users, 130% increase in device types and 2400% increase in devices amongst other scalable metrics during peak times; Maintained around 85% test coverage for Microservices; Involved in fixing majority of 500 incidents in tech debtDeveloped applications using secure practices with Java 8/Java 11, Spring-boot, Hibernate, Spring JPA, PostgreSQL, Swagger, Sonar, Dataflix, Rundeck, Rancher, Kafka, AppDynamics, Jenkins, Postman, Sonar, Mockito, Power mock, AWS

Education

• PES University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2010 — 2014

• Iowa State University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering

  2017 — 2019