Akilan Selvacoumar
Dev Ops at ESG360°
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAkilan Selvacoumar is a DevOps engineer and backend-focused software developer with 8 years of experience, based in Edinburgh. He blends production-grade backend and database work—contributing to Vitess to improve error handling and replication stability—with hands-on DevOps and benchmarking automation from his PlanetScale internship. A self-described “not boring developer,” he maintains multiple open-source projects and runs creative side projects like P2PRC, reflecting a taste for experimental distributed systems and sound-based Reed–Solomon messaging work from a senior role at Karaz. Currently at ESG360° and pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt, he combines research rigor with practical system-building. He prefers intentional professional connections and publishes his work and CV openly at akilan.io, showing an unusual blend of openness and boundary-setting.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
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Github Skills (14)
databases10
vitess10
go10
database-replication10
relational-databases10
mysql10
sql-database10
database10
testing10
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
google-chrome6
recordrtc6
screensharing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 21 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Akilan primarily contributed to improving the error handling and logging within the Vitess database clustering system. They addressed ineffectual errors in several test files, enhancing the robustness of the testing suite. Furthermore, the user modified various files related to replication, binlog events, and the internal workings of Vitess's MySQL integration. These changes involved modifying code to improve the system's stability and reliability.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
Akilan1999/laplace
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Laplace is an open-source project to enable screen sharing directly via browser. Based on WebRTC for low latency peer-to-peer connections, and WebSocket implemented in golang for signaling.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
golangwebsocketsbrowserlaplacep2p
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