Summary
Sitesh Pattanaik is an SDE-2 with 10 years of experience building scalable backend and distributed systems across fintech, adtech, and cloud infrastructure, currently working on AWS EKS to scale Kubernetes clusters at Amazon. He brings deep expertise in Java, Golang, Scala, Kubernetes, Kafka, and cloud-native patterns, with a track record of improving throughput and test times at scale (e.g., Kafka ingestion and operator-driven automation). A master's graduate from UC Irvine and former ICPC regionalist, he blends strong algorithmic foundations with practical system design—having built pricing microservices, Confluent REST Proxy deployments, and orchestration for 100TB/day data pipelines. Outside of code he hosts the Byte Ventures podcast and writes The Control Loop newsletter, signaling a commitment to community learning and mentorship. Notably, he pairs strategic thinking (Clifton strengths) with hands-on engineering, often applying business process modeling and distributed caching to accelerate feature delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Funding a New Enterprise: Learn from Experienced Silicon Valley Practitioners Business Administration and Management, General, Funding a New Enterprise: Learn from Experienced Silicon Valley Practitioners Business Administration and Management, General at Stanford Continuing Studies
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
University of California, Irvine
English, Hindi, Odia