About

Yashwanth P is an analytically skilled Software Developer/Engineer with over 4 years of experience in building clean, test-driven, and object-oriented Java Enterprise applications. He has a deep understanding of core JVM concepts such as Memory Management and Garbage Collectors, and has worked on several scalability data-driven case studies. Yashwanth has also contributed to developing cloud-native applications, which has given him a breadth of understanding in niche distributed concepts/tech. He has hands-on experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm), Micronaut (with Kotlin), REST APIs and Swagger, Test frameworks (JUnit, Spock, Karate, Gatling), AWS services, API Gateway (Kong, KrakenD), IDP (Auth0), Load Balancing (ALB), Monitoring (Prometheus), and Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry). He is immensely curious about real-world scalability concerns and loves to address them. Yashwanth is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Pegasystems, where he is involved in several stages of building microservices. He actively participates in design discussions, develops full-blown APIs, conducts a wide range of testing (unit, component, integration, and contract), creates observability dashboards, and cloud deployments. Yashwanth has also worked on several case studies, including an analytical take on AWS-ALB for sticky sessions, its contradiction to Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA), and the analysis to find smarter load balancer. He has also conducted an in-depth analysis of Kubernetes HPA (primarily, memory-based) for a JVM monolith. By uncovering the surprising gaps in JVM memory management with containerized environments and exploring innovative solutions, this helped him solve the problem of under-utilization of cloud resources. Yashwanth has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad. He is proficient in Software Engineering, AWS, test, Kubernetes, Docker, New Relic, Java, Kotlin, Microservices, Integration, Jenkins, and Backend.