# Rakesh Kandibanda

> Engineering at Apple | Meditation Teacher | Entrepreneur

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

Transforming and improving people lives with software engineering.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Present | Cupertino, California

### Founder @ TrackYoga
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019
https://trackyoga.app/
- UI/UX Design using Sketch & Invision
- Video pipeline automation and Cloudfront fronting via S3.
- OAUTH token integration and login using Google and Facebook and E-mail.
- SQLLite integration and DAO code and workflow design and development for internet offline scenarios for changes on the client side.
- First ever in-app chat with yoga instructors.
- Android App development of majority of features
- Facebook Parse SDK and backend integration
- RXJava migration of entire app code base
- Badges design, video encoding pipeline, AWS S3, BeanStalk, CDN and deployment and development of Node application
- Migration to Firebase
- Wordpress site for TrackYoga
- Integration with Kiip for mobile rewards

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California
• Lead compliance team in Design, development & testing of custom algorithms to detect any compliance/risk related to transactions processed by PayPal.
• Leveraged Big Data eco system Hadoop, Spark and other technologies like Hive to be able to run custom algorithms on vast amounts high volume transactions to detect compliance and risk issues.
• Led the effort to migrate to the latest Apache Lucene 8+ from 4+ version which involved lot of breaking changes and refactoring and affected the overall scoring as well because of changes in the scoring algorithm of lucene
• Lead compliance team in backend API development using Spring Boot and other technologies to enable real time scanning of transactions.

### Founding Engineer @ AirDeck Technologies US, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California
Hybrid cloud  +  Kubernetes + Storage innovation around Hyperconverged infrastructure.

### Senior Software Engineer @ MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area

### Technical Architect @ ComPsych
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Greater Chicago Area
Spring MVC, Spring MVC-REST, Spring Data-JPA, JPA2.1, Hibernate, Twitter Bootstrap, Thymeleaf, JBOSS-EAP6.4.1, Query-DSL, Spring Security, Maven, HTML5, Jquery, CSS, Java 8, Hazelcast Caching, Qoppa JPDF, On-Base, Capsys, Mockito, Junit, Spock, GEB, Groovy, Spring MVC-Test modules, REST-Assured, Jenkins, Oracle RAC, Spring Batch, Golden Gate.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ CCC Information Services
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Senior SME Programmer @ Amdocs
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Champaign, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer Level 5 @ AAMC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

### Senior Java/JEE Developer @ Indus Valley Consultants
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Kentucky
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
- Brand new Presidents Commission on Diversity website design, development and GoLive
- PCD meeting minutes capture
- Adobe Dreamweaver to maintain website design and upload to the site for publishing 
- Custom PHP server side code
- PCD meetings setup and assistance 

Real-Time tasks with Linux and RTLinux                                   
Technologies: C, Linux, RT-Linux, Putty, VI editor, Emacs, WIN Merge.
• The Servo motor controlled in this project is used in radio-controlled airplanes to move the control surfaces and in
   Radio-controlled cars to control the steering. Control programs have been written in both ordinary Linux Scheduler
and Real-Time Linux Scheduler (RTLINUX).
• Used multithreaded programming with FIFO implementation to access a parallel/serial port and implemented resource sharing (Servo Motor) using MUTEX LOCK and UNLOCK functions and the servo motor was controlled successfully for various desired angles.
• Various timing issues and release time jitters were analyzed


## Education
### Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Kentucky

### Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12