Anand Subramanian
Software Architect at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Subramanian is a Software Architect with over a decade at Salesforce, known for shaping customer-empathetic APIs, safely evolving high-usage platform interfaces, and debugging integrations at enterprise scale. He has led large migration projects handling billions of requests per day and driven impactful platform changes—replacing a cloud compiler in flight and rolling out fleet-wide schema caching and privilege-reduction improvements. Anand combines deep systems knowledge (Java, Apex, HBase, Hadoop, Scala, NoSQL) with a knack for reading and refactoring legacy code across domains, and he enjoys tackling nuanced problems like cache invalidation. An active contributor to quality tooling, he added Apex-focused unit tests and best-practice rules to the well-known PMD static analysis project, reflecting his emphasis on reliability and developer ergonomics. Based in San Francisco, he pairs technical leadership with clear executive- and customer-facing communication to land intricate changes safely.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer and Information Science, Master's Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied SciencesBE Information Technology, BE Information Technology at VESIT, Mumbai UniversitySwami Vivekanand Junior CollegeSwami Vivekanand High School
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
code-analysis10
apex10
test-automation10
java9
javas9
static-code-analysis9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pmd/pmd
Jan 2018 - Aug 2023
An extensible multilanguage static code analyzer.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Anand contributed to the project by implementing and enabling unit tests for Apex code. The commits include the creation of new test rules to check for best practices, such as the avoidance of `seeAllData=true` and the presence of assertions in test methods. The user also fixed an issue in the ruleset configuration and added a new rule to prevent the use of non-existent annotations.
lintercode-analyzercode-qualityresharperstatic-code-analyzer
anand13s/pmd
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
PMD Fork to add module for Salesforce.com Apex language
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pmdsalesforce-developerssalesforcesoqlsalesforcedx
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