I build systems that scale and interfaces that feel natural. Five years turning complexity into clean, working software — from cloud infrastructure to the pixels on your screen.
Two things define how I work — what I build and how I think about it.
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What I Build
Distributed systems that don't break under pressure
From Kafka-driven event pipelines to Spring Batch jobs processing millions of records — I architect for reliability, observability, and scale. The system should keep working even when something goes wrong.
I don't just write code — I own the feature from schema design to deployed UI. I care about maintainability, test coverage, and systems that are easy to understand six months later. Products should feel good to use.
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Get to Know Me
Where Precision Meets Scale.
Full Stack Engineer at Equinix — building the infrastructure that keeps global networks connected.
Ravi Varma
Gottumukkala
Full Stack Engineer
San Jose, California
Open to opportunities
Core Expertise
JavaSpring BootReactPythonAWSDockerKafkaK8s
5+
Years Building
4
Companies
2×
AWS Certified
"Engineer by craft, builder at heart — from schema design to deployed UI."
Currently building global network provisioning systems at Equinix. Five years across TCS, UMBC, and now Equinix — Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and React. I care about systems that stay up, code that's maintainable six months later, and interfaces that feel effortless.
From TCS to Equinix — building real systems, shipping real products.
MAR 2026 — PRESENT Full-Time
Senior Associate Engineer
Equinix · Individual Contributor · San Jose, CA
Converted to full-time as a Senior Associate Engineer — Individual Contributor on the Global Network Console team. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions for reserving and provisioning Fabric Virtual Connections (VCs). Leading the design of a distributed locking mechanism using Redis to eliminate race conditions in concurrent VC provisioning workflows, ensuring consistency and reliability at high throughput.
JavaSpring BootRedis Distributed LockReactGrafanaWebSocketsSlack API
FEB 2025 — MAR 2026 Contract
Full Stack Engineer
Equinix · via Amiseq · San Jose, CA
Owned backend services for core network provisioning — Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs at scale. Built Spring Batch jobs handling millions of records. Architected a configurable validation engine that cut processing errors significantly. Event-driven async with Kafka & RabbitMQ. Temporal Workflows for product provisioning with retry/failure handling. Redis caching and Elasticsearch query optimization for latency reduction.
University of Maryland · Graduate Assistant · Baltimore, MD
Java microservices and REST APIs with Spring Boot for research projects. ReactJS dashboards for internal tools, Kafka pub/sub messaging, AWS integration POCs. Explored Circuit Breaker and API Gateway patterns hands-on. API documentation with Swagger the team actually used.
JavaSpring BootReactJSKafkaAWSSwagger
NOV 2020 — AUG 2022
App Development Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services · India
Led the full invoicing application — Angular + Spring Boot. Custom auditing with Hibernate/JPA and PL/SQL on Oracle, improved transaction efficiency 30–50%. Kafka microservices, ReactJS UI, automated CI/CD with Gradle and Jenkins.
The full stack I reach for to build, deploy, and monitor production systems.
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Projects
Things I've Built
Side projects where I owned the whole thing — cloud infra to the CSS.
2025
AccessLens — VS Code Accessibility Extension
Built at a hackathon at Equinix. A VS Code extension that statically analyzes HTML/JSX code in real-time and flags WCAG accessibility violations — missing alt text, poor color contrast, missing ARIA labels — with inline diagnostics and one-click auto-fixes. Helps developers ship accessible UIs without leaving their editor.
An autonomous multi-agent system that performs intelligent code review as a GitHub Action. The orchestrator agent breaks pull requests into chunks, delegates to specialized sub-agents (security scanner, performance analyzer, test coverage assessor), and synthesizes a structured report with prioritized recommendations — all before human review.
PythonLangGraphOpenAIGitHub ActionsMulti-AgentRAG
2024
Mood-Based Music Recommendations
Real-time web app that reads your emotion from a photo and builds a Spotify playlist to match. 95% emotion accuracy via Amazon Rekognition, sub-2s response time on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. 200+ users, 99.9% uptime with Docker + Kubernetes orchestration.
Mountains, motorbikes, rivers you probably shouldn't cross, and places so remote your phone gives up. Come see what I do when I'm not shipping code.
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I'm always open to new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting problems to solve.
Email
rvgottumukkala98@gmail.com
Phone
+1 (667) 464-8539
Location
San Jose, California
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Beyond the Screen.
Buckle up. This is the good stuff.
Ravi Beyond Code
The other side of me
Mountains, bikes and open roads.
When I'm not writing code, I'm chasing horizons. These are some of the trips that changed how I think, live and see the world.
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Bikes & Rides
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Two-wheel Therapy
Nothing clears the head like a long ride. Highway or mountain road — it doesn't matter. The throttle is the best reset button I know. Some of my clearest thinking happens at 80 kmph with the wind in my face and no notifications.
Weekend ritual
The Ride Playlist
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Mountains Calling
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Somewhere between a mountain pass and a wrong turn
Ladakh — The Roof of the World
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Khardung La — Top of the World
Rode to one of the world's highest motorable roads at over 18,000 feet. The air is thin, the views are impossible, and your body reminds you very clearly that you are not supposed to be this high up.
18,379 ft above sea level
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Pangong Lake — On the Edge of Two Countries
Pangong stretches across the India–China border. Standing there at sunset, watching the water change from blue to green to silver — it hits different when you realise this lake doesn't care about borders.
4,350m · 134 km long
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'MAN' Village — Where the World Ends
Near Pangong, the village of Man is one of the most remote places I've ever stepped foot in. A handful of houses, no signal, no traffic — just mountains, silence, and the warmest hosts you'll ever meet.
Most remote I've been
Spiti Valley — The Adventure That Tested Everything
No Signal. No People. No Problem.
Spiti Valley · Solo Ride
For stretches that lasted hours, there was nothing — no mobile signal, no other vehicles, no signs of human life. Just you, the bike, and 500-metre drops on one side. You stop overthinking things real fast when that's your only option.
The Water Crossing That Should Have Ended the Trip
Spiti Valley · River Crossing
Spiti has river crossings that aren't on any map. The water is glacial, the current is stronger than it looks, and your bike is not waterproof. We made it across. Barely. There were a few moments where "turning back" felt like the sensible call — but sensible wasn't what we were there for.
Midnight. Stuck. Towing. And Still Smiling.
Spiti Valley · Night Ride
The bike gave up halfway up a pass after sunset. We towed it in the dark on roads that had no guardrails and barely any width. We reached the guesthouse well past midnight, soaked and exhausted, and had the best chai of our lives. Some of the best trips aren't the ones that go to plan.
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The Roads
Spiti roads are not roads — they're suggestions. Loose gravel, blind corners, single-lane paths cut into cliffsides. Every kilometre earns your respect.
Earned every metre
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Nights in the Valley
No light pollution, no sound. Spiti at night has the kind of sky that makes you feel small in the best possible way. Stars so dense it looks like someone spilled milk across the sky.
Best skies I've seen
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The People
In the most remote villages, complete strangers offered food, shelter and help without being asked. That generosity — no transaction, no reason — stays with you longer than any photo.
Changed my perspective
What I'm into right now
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Reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Also anything about how people make decisions under uncertainty — turns out Spiti prepared me well for that.
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Exploring
Agentic AI systems, LangGraph, multi-agent patterns. The same curiosity that took me to Spiti drives how I approach new technology.
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Planning
Next route is already being researched. If you have a suggestion — mountains preferred, guardrails optional — I'm listening.
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