Amuthan Sakthivel
Principal Software Engineer at Testing Mini Bytes
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmuthan Sakthivel is a Principal Software Engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in test automation, DevOps, and developer experience, currently leading engineering efforts at FINRA. He has a strong track record scaling release velocity (from 1/week to 70+/week) through trunk-based development, CI/CD, and tooling for large monorepos while building test frameworks spanning Selenium, Appium, Playwright, Selenide, and Rest Assured. As the creator of Testing Mini Bytes and an active Udemy instructor, he has produced 300+ educational videos and open-source frameworks that the testing community uses to adopt modern automation and DevOps practices. His hands-on background spans cloud platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ECR/S3), observability (ELK), and source-wide refactors using Sourcegraph, reflecting both deep engineering and operational instincts. Colleagues value him for blending technical leadership with practical mentorship—he often converts complex engineering process gaps into repeatable, automated workflows. A mechanical-engineering graduate by training, he brings a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to software quality and delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Velammal Engineering College
English, Tamil
Github Skills (76)
selenium-server10
testng10
webdriver10
selenium-grid10
selenium10
data-driven-tests10
selenium-java10
devtools9
keda9
ddt9
docker-selenium9
protractor9
docker9
grid9
java9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amuthansakthivel/selenide-appium
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Selenide adaptor for Appium framework
Contributions:8 PRs, 70 pushes, 61 branches in 7 months
appiumadaptorselenideappium-frameworkautomation
amuthansakthivel/TheOneFramework
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Web, Mobile and Api Automation using Selenide, Rest Assured, Junit5 and Allure
Contributions:2 reviews, 51 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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