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Sahitya Thota
Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems
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Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.
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Key Strengths
- Led end-to-end design and delivery of a sales insights platform providing a 360° advertiser performance view
- Strong code review leadership: enforced standards for service boundaries, data contracts, and observability
- Architected major backend reliability improvements (moved synchronous Hive-query workflows to event-driven async processing to eliminate throttling/latency spikes)
- Designed batching and caching layer to reduce downstream fan-out and improve response times
- Proven incident ownership: diagnosed ads metric mismatch to inconsistent attribution windows; shipped hotfix, backfilled data, and added monitoring/validation to prevent recurrence
- Player-coach leadership with intentional time allocation; stays technically deep via architecture ownership, design reviews, and active code reviews
- Effective stakeholder alignment across Product, Sales, UX, and Data Engineering using milestone planning and demo-driven checkpoints
- People management with structured 1:1s and measurable impact (reduced dependency delays by 25%; reduced own design review involvement by 40% by building team design culture)
- Improved delivery speed in ambiguous 0→1 environment via iterative, shippable relevance slices for a graph-based matching/recommendation system
- Quality-first approach for recommendations emphasizing relevance, consistency, and explainability with instrumentation and phased rollouts
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