Ambud S
Principal Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAmbud S is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience, currently driving Infrastructure Efficiency at Pinterest from San Francisco. He focuses on cost efficiency, developer productivity, and scalable Data PaaS architectures across Pinterest’s Data Engineering organization. His expertise in distributed systems informs pragmatic trade-offs that reduce cloud spend while improving platform reliability and developer velocity. Ambud combines hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership, translating data-driven insights into operational improvements. Colleagues know him for balancing rigorous technical design with measurable business impact and for surfacing non-obvious optimization opportunities that scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, BS Computer Information Systems, Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Github Skills (114)
timeseries-database10
dashboard10
messaging10
python10
grafana10
correlation10
remote-server10
streaming10
monitoring10
sql-query10
javascript10
r10
provisioning10
collectd10
pinterest10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/slate
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Resource Lifecycle Management framework
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Symantec/hendrix
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 67 PRs, 276 pushes in 8 months
streaming-datastreamingalertingcorrelationreal-time
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.