Anand Rajagopal
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Rajagopal is a Software Development Engineer based in San Antonio with 8 years of recent experience and a long track record in enterprise and cloud engineering stretching back to the early 2000s. He has progressed from developer and consultant roles to leadership positions at USAA and now builds cloud services at AWS, blending hands-on backend implementation with architectural insight from his prior Cloud Application Architect role. Anand contributes to notable open-source observability work—adding user-level metrics and rule-query filtering to the widely used Cortex project—demonstrating expertise in scalable, multi-tenant monitoring systems. Known for practical refactoring, robust testing, and improving operational telemetry, he pairs a solid academic foundation in computer science (MCA) with a pragmatic focus on production reliability.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science at Crescent Engineering CollegeBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at A.V.C College
Tamil
Github Skills (9)
monitoring10
go10
prometheus10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cortexproject/cortex
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 21 PRs, 98 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Anand primarily contributed to the codebase by adding user-level metrics to the Cortex project. This involved modifying existing test files, adding new metrics related to rule queries, and updating configurations to track failures. They also introduced functionality to filter rules using API query parameters, modifying the ruler's protobuf definitions and updating the GetPrometheusRules functions. Additional contributions included minor refactoring, documentation updates, and the addition of contextual information, such as query statistics, to log messages, as well as adding support for disabling rule groups.
golangscalabletenantprometheus-exporterlong-term
rajagopalanand/prometheus
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Contributions:42 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasedatabaseprometheus-monitoring
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