# Harish Pendela > Technical Lead at Wealthfront Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harish Software professional with 8+ years of expertise in building scalable backend systems and microservices. Engineering leader and mentor with expertise in fostering cross-functional collaboration to achieve business goals. ## Work Experience ### Technical Lead @ Wealthfront Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Wealthfront Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Development Engineer - 3 @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States ### Software Development Engineer - 2 @ PayPal Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Scottsdale, Arizona, United States - Designed and developed new servicing APIs for Venmo credit card. - Part of the team that launched Venmo credit card to millions of customers. - Architect and improve performance of credit servicing applications that serve significant portion of credit traffic. - Design and implement logging, monitoring, and alerting systems for Credit servicing APIs. - Actively contribute to and support the team in hiring amazing talent. Created online technical screen tests and interviewed several candidates for PayPal Credit team. - Actively contribute to and co-lead PayPal Scottsdale's Recent College Grad (RCG) program. ### Software Development Engineer - Full Stack @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Phoenix, Arizona Area • Designed and developed front-end applications using Node and React that delivered PayPal's Pay In 4 (4x) installment based products in 2019/2020. • Part of Credit team that provides the capability to add credit to the wallet of millions of PayPal customers. • Work with product and architects to define and design new credit products. • Mentor interns. Front-end: Node, React, Mocha, Jest Back-end: Java 8, Spring, SQL, Spring Batch, TestNG, JUnit, GIT, REST, JSON, Apache Tomcat ### Software Development Engineer - 2 @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Phoenix, Arizona Area • Part of Credit team that provides the capability to add credit to the wallet of millions of PayPal customers. • Develop credit eligibility rules and rule engine that can be consumed as REST APIs. • Work with product and architects to define and design new credit products. • Mentor interns. Back-end: Java 8, Spring, SQL, Spring Batch, TestNG, JUnit, GIT, REST, JSON, Apache Tomcat ### Risk Innovation Lab Web Resource Manager @ Arizona State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Tempe Update, deploy, and maintain ASU’s Risk Innovation Lab website(https://riskinnovation.asu.edu/) on AWS EC2 instance using WordPress. ### Lead Tutor @ Arizona State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Tempe, Arizona Area • Work one-on-one with undergrad students in courses including C, C++, Java, Object oriented programming and data structures, Programming for computer engineering, Introduction to software engineering. • Conduct review sessions and workshops to assist students in preparing for exams and working on projects. ### Software Development Intern @ Netskope Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area • Built micro services in python to extract cloud transaction features for various data sources. • Developed services that extract (ETL) data from sources including MongoDB, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. • Bootstrapped and configured EC2 instances and S3 buckets using AWS that run various critical services. ### Software Development Engineer - 2 @ Netskope Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India • Trained and mentored interns and new hires. • Worked as back-end developer and responsible for design, and development of scalable cloud security solutions. • Designed and developed REST services in python to provide a security footprint of cloud apps for an enterprise. • Developed solutions for Google Apps and Google Cloud which contributed to more than 50% of the customers. • Familiar with, and used MongoDB, Celery, Kafka, Flask, Redis, JSON and GitHub. • Developed policy enforcement solutions to securely manage an enterprise cloud app ecosystem. Python | MongoDB | Redis | Celery | Flask | Github |REST APIs | Scalable solutions | Enterprise cloud security | NoSQL Databases | Google Apps | Google Cloud | Ansible | Confluence | Cloud Computing | Confluence | Jenkins ### Software Development Engineer - 1 @ Netskope Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India • Worked as back-end developer and responsible for design, and development of scalable cloud security solutions. • Designed and developed REST services in python to provide a security footprint of cloud apps for an enterprise. • Developed solutions for Google Apps and Google Cloud which contributed to more than 50% of the customers. • Familiar with, and used MongoDB, Celery, Kafka, Flask, Redis, JSON and GitHub. • Developed policy enforcement solutions to securely manage an enterprise cloud app ecosystem. Python | MongoDB | Redis | Celery | Flask | Github |REST APIs | Scalable solutions | Enterprise cloud security | NoSQL Databases | Google Apps | Google Cloud | Ansible | Confluence | Cloud Computing | Confluence | Jenkins ### Network Research, and Software Development Intern @ Netskope Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru Area, India • Developed scripts and signatures for analyzing cloud application traffic using Deep Packet Inspection(DPI). • Working knowledge of TCP/IP stack, application layer protocols(L7), network traffic inspection and analysis. Deep Packet Inspection tools | Cloud app analysis and categorization | OSI | TCP/IP Stack | Application layer protocols. ### Peer Tutor @ Vellore Institute Of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Vellore Area, India • Worked with freshman and sophomore students to improve their programming skills in C, C++, and Java. • Created tutor material, and practice tests. Monitored, assessed, and provided feedback on student performance. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance Arizona State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Master's degree ( 4 + 1 Integrated) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking Vellore Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 ### 11th and 12th in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry Sri Chaitanya Junior College Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harishpendela - Website: https://harishpendela.webs.com - GitHub: https://github.com/harishphn --- Source: https://flows.cv/harish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22