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# Sandeep Koppala on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineering Manager @ Google

## About

Experienced Backend Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working on large scale distributed systems and infrastructure\. I am passionate about making systems scale, fixing operational issues and building reliable services\. I have worked across a breadth of domains \- security, video uploads and encoding, mapping, and most recently, fintech\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

deepmind

gemini

geminicli

## Work experience

Software Engineering Manager at Google, Sep 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Unified Data Platform Core Infra Team

Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood, Jul 2020 \- Jun 2023 · 3 yrs, Menlo Park, California, United States

Senior Software Engineer at Lyft, Nov 2017 \- Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Mapping & Locations: Building next generation of Lyft's Locations platform\. \- Process locations as a stream\. Use streaming technologies \(Apache Kafka, Apache Flink\) to move and process locations data\. \- Streaming infrastructure to compare locations data and deliver accuracy metrics in realtime\. Allow faster iteration of locations modeling\. \- Simpler, resilient infrastructure which can be scaled up better\. Deliver more accurate locations data faster\.

Senior Software Engineer at Instagram, Jul 2015 \- Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Instagram Core Infra \- Shipped Instagram Live: http://blog\.instagram\.com/post/153474421572/161121\-launches \- Shipped longer videos on Instagram: http://blog\.instagram\.com/post/141905496242/160329\-video \- Shipped copyright checking for Instagram videos \- Hacking on Instagram's videos infra to improve video upload efficiency and reliability

Software Engineer at Facebook \- Infrastructure Engineering, Mar 2013 \- Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Core Systems Security \- Built security features for Tupperware \- Facebook's managed services deployment platform\. \- Secure Thrift \- Worked on building security for Facebook's backend thrift services which allowed services and clients to authenticate each other, and services can optionally put authorization controls\. \- Other security infrastructure \- ACL management, ACL checking library, crypto and keychain infrastructure\.

## Education

Master of Science, Computer Science, Stony Brook University

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology Jul 2004, IIEST, Shibpur

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