Hemanth Kumar Kola

Designing and implementing robust, scalable, and efficient cloud native microservices for Sling's back-end systems, facilitating seamless communication and improved code maintainability.

• Addressed over 30+ bugs, significantly impacting the experience of 2.7 million customers.
• Collaborated with a team of four to develop Lead Feature Unlock feature to successfully transition Sling free users without an existing Sling account to active users with a Sling account.
• Independently spearheaded the implementation of Adobe Analytics reporting for the in-app messaging feature.
• Demonstrating a strong commitment to produce clean, maintainable code while constantly striving to enhance the reliability, scalability, and overall performance of Sling's back-end architecture.
• Rapidly facilitated the complete migration of the entire backend system from an older Kafka cluster to a new one, ensuring seamless transition without any message loss. Additionally, devised a comprehensive backup plan for worst-case scenarios.
• Actively contributing to architectural discussions, providing valuable insights and recommendations for improving the microservices architecture and enhancing Sling's ability to scale and move towards event driven architecture.
• Technologies used: Golang, Sarama's Kafka frame work, TypeScript, RESTful API, AWS, Redis, Dynamo DB, Cassandra, , JIRA, Git, Visual Studio, Postman, JSON, Unit Testing, OAuth, jwt, Apache Consul, Launch Darkly, New Relic, Protocol-Buffers, gRPC.

Founded the first ever financial club of NITC, with an aim to spread financial awareness among students and faculty.

• Handled the scheduling and coordination of meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements for executives, optimizing their time management.
• Collaborated with like-minded people, organized sessions with some of the best speakers in the industry.