# Ponkumar Senthurpandi

> Principal Software Engineer at Okta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ponkumar

Expertise in building enterprise applications in SAAS model, with 15+ years of experience.
Created platform foundation for partner ecosystem for extensions.
Expertise in modularization of monolith into micro services using Spring Boot.
Multi-cloud adoption with Microsoft Azure.
Experienced in mentoring cross functional scrum teams.
Introduced guard rails and governor limits to improve system resiliency.
Experienced in docker based delivery.
Exposure to Kubernetes.

Specialties: 
Data Structures, Java, SQL, Spring Boot, Web Services, REST, Odata, Git, Gradle, Docker, Agile, Azure

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Okta
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ SAP SuccessFactors
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineer @ SAP SuccessFactors
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr. Software Engineer @ SAP SuccessFactors
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Technical Lead @ Photon Infotech Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
* Implemented rest API based web services to support product catalog, shopping etc.
* Unit testing for the web services API
* Worked on the API application deployment from Websphere 6 to WebSphere 7
* Implemented high performance caching approach for the API
* Implemented batch processing using spring batch for data refresh

### Technical Lead @ Photon Infotech Inc
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
* Responsible for design and implementation of the systems.
* Responsible for project delivery
* Estimation and planning
* Leading a team of developers

### Senior Software Engineer @ Photon Infotech Inc
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
* Responsible for implementation of the interactive voice response system (411)
* Responsible for leading a team of 5 developers
* Implemented modules for a healthcare product.

### Developer @ CargoWaves
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005
* Design and implementation of web applications using java and jsp with SQL Server database


## Education
### BE in Computer Science
College of Engineering, Guindy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ponkumarsenthurpandi
- Portfolio: http://ponkumars.blogspot.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12