Gajendra Babu Thokala
(he/him)Senior Engineering Leader & Architect | FAANG, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Honeywell | IEEE Senior Member, BCS Fellow | Wharton Executive Education
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Senior Engineering Leader & Architect | FAANG, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Honeywell | IEEE Senior Member, BCS Fellow | Wharton Executive Education
I'm a Senior Engineering Leader and Architect at a top-tier FAANG company, with 18 years of experience building and scaling systems that sit at the intersection of data, AI, and consumer-grade reliability. My career spans Honeywell, 11+ years at Microsoft, and my current role architecting a real-time streaming platforms that powers personalization for hundreds of millions of users. I work at the architecture layer where engineering judgment meets business outcomes — designing for data completeness, fault tolerance, and cost at petabyte scale, while growing the engineers around me. I've led teams of 30+, mentored from senior to junior levels, and 1,000+ hours mentoring engineers across seven countries through ADPList. My technical work has been recognized through senior memberships and f...