Nagendra Darla

Career

Experience

16+ years building data platforms, backend services, and cloud infrastructure in production.

San Mateo, CA · Jan 2018 – Present

Own architecture and operations for AWS distributed systems processing 10+ TB daily at 99.9% availability
Lead platform modernization from Hadoop/Hive to Delta Lake—zero-downtime cutover for 500+ datasets, ~40% lower infrastructure cost
Build Kafka and Spark Structured Streaming pipelines that cut ingestion latency by ~70%
Mentor a team of 8 engineers; drive architecture reviews, delivery quality, and CI/CD on Docker/Kubernetes
Improve query performance up to 50% across Oracle, Hive, and Delta Lake; raise observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch

Stack: Java, Scala (Spark), SQL, Python, AWS, Spring Boot, Kafka, Delta Lake, Docker, Kubernetes, ReactJS

Hyderabad, India · Jan 2014 – Dec 2017

Designed Java/Spring Boot microservices for 60+ enterprise clients at 99.5% availability
Cut API latency ~45% and improved throughput ~2x through tuning, caching, and AWS infrastructure work
Shipped REST integrations across 10+ applications; containerized releases with Docker and Jenkins
Stood up Prometheus monitoring and resolved 200+ production defects with systematic RCA

Stack: Java, Oracle, AWS, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Docker, Jenkins, Prometheus

Hyderabad, India · Jan 2010 – Dec 2013

Delivered 8 major releases and 75+ features for enterprise Java/Oracle applications
Built PL/SQL migration frameworks moving 100M+ records with zero downtime
Automated Ant/Jenkins pipelines (~80% less manual deploy work) and cut post-release defects ~40% via reviews and testing

Stack: Java, Oracle, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ant, Jenkins

Master of Computer Applications
Osmania University, Hyderabad
2005–2008