About

Durga Prasad Kathula is a highly experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle with a career spanning over 18 years. He has a strong background in design and delivery of software products, having worked on various systems from scratch. He is known for his self-motivation, honesty, and strong commitment to his work. Durga has acquired domain knowledge in Digital Marketing Automation and is a specialist in application programming using a variety of technologies. He has expertise in Agile methodologies and is a specialist in SOAP and RESTful Web services. His working knowledge extends to Spring, Hibernate, Redis, Ignite, Memcached, and Solr. He is also well-versed in relational and NoSQL databases and has expertise in Docker containerization. Durga is highly skilled in statistical data analysis and has experience in performance tuning and profiling. He possesses strong debugging and problem-solving capabilities and is involved in all phases of the project from requirement gathering to deployment. Prior to joining Oracle, Durga worked as a Senior Solutions Architect at GlobalLogic, where he was responsible for the technical lead on the Marketo API Platform. He participated in the design and architect reviews for the API platform and created metrics and monitoring dashboards for real-time alerts using Splunk and Datadog. He was also involved in development and deployment through Docker containers and performance tuning and optimization using profilers. Before GlobalLogic, Durga worked as an Engineering Manager at Pentaur Technology, where he was responsible for the technical lead on the Marketo API Platform. He participated in the design and architect reviews for the API platform and created metrics and monitoring dashboards for real-time alerts using Splunk. He was also responsible for setting up the offshore team for API platform development for Marketo and was accountable for the delivery of the offshore team of six members. Durga has a Master of Technology in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, both from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His technical skills include software engineering, Docker, Redis, NoSQL, Spring, and web development.