About

Shivagangadhar Kolli is a Senior Software Engineer at PayPal, with over 4 years of relevant experience in the field. He has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University at Albany, SUNY, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science & Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. Shivagangadhar is a software engineer with expertise in Java 8, RxJava, SpringBoot, Spring-Batch, GraphQL, IBM ODM Rules Engine, Pig Scripts, Shell Scripts, Groovy Scripts, Jacoco, Junit, TestNG, Jenkins CI, and more. He has worked on critical projects at PayPal, including enhancing real-time payments and authorizations, tech-integration of PayPal Inc. companies, and enhancing the bank lookup API. He has also developed an open-source SVG drawing plugin for TinyMCE editor, which is used by over 10,000 students and teachers across the globe. As a Graduate Research Assistant at the University at Albany, SUNY, Shivagangadhar worked with Dr. Mei-Hwa Chen to enhance the overall efficiency of the platform by 20% and the drawing application by 80%. He used agile best practices (Scrum) to develop and publish the open-source SVG drawing plugin. Shivagangadhar's tech stack includes software engineering, Spring, Java, Spring Boot, Jenkins, integration, frontend, and research science. He is a dedicated and motivated professional with a passion for learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the industry.