# Phani Kumar

> Founding Engineer at Healthex

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/phanikumar

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building highly available backend systems using a variety of languages like Java, Ruby, Python and Scala

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ HealthEx
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on Database Infrastructure for routing SQL queries between primary and multiple replica databases and 
Distributed system for metadata replication across all salesforce instances ( https://availability.salesforce.com/find-my-instance/)

### Principal Software Engineer @ BlueJeans by Verizon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
As part of the platform team in HQ, was involved in the public cloud migration and laying the ground work for running the service in multiple regions in active-active manner.

Some of the projects:
  Extended the routing layer to proxy traffic from one region to another region and also fail over one region to another.
  Dockerizing the entire bluejeans application stack.
  Migrating backend systems from data center to Kubernetes on public cloud ( AWS EKS ) without any   downtime.
  Involved with capacity planning and estimation to handle surges in traffic.

### Principal Software Engineer @ BlueJeans by Verizon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore
One of the early engineers in the back-end engineering team in the Bangalore office. 
Started off with new feature development in Bluejeans Video Conferencing Service. Later moved on to the infrastructure side of the house to work on availability and reducing the time to recover of the service. 

Some of the projects:
• Adding Call Me feature to the meetings platform 
• Video transcoder integrations with Zencoder and Amazon elastic transcoder.
• Designed and implemented in-house transcoder service to transcode meeting recordings using FFmpeg which auto scales based on the load on the service.
• Integrated the backend systems and HTTP routing layer with application partition manager so that we can take a partition offline with the click of a button and route production traffic to another partition.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Cleartrip.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru Area, India
Engineer in the backend team.
• API design and development in ruby.
• Implemented caching mechanism for login and user management APIs using Redis as the caching server.
• Worked on feature development and performance improvement of rails applications.
• Handled production issues with the rails API servers.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Worked as a Java developer in the development team of  GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance)

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Hyderabad Area, India
Worked as application developer


## Education
### MS in Information Technology
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

### Bachelor's degree
VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNRVJIET)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gsphanikumar

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Last updated: 2026-04-10