Anantha Selvaganapathy
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnantha Selvaganapathy is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building payments, platform, and foundation products at high-growth tech companies including Uber, Airbnb, and Meta. He combines backend systems expertise with a practical ML and data background honed during internships at Microsoft and Google and a CS master’s from NYU. At Meta he worked on charitable giving and talent products, and at Airbnb focused on Payments Platform before joining Uber; his hands-on work spans scalable services, reliability, and developer-facing tooling. An active open-source contributor, he maintains a high-performance, multi-threaded image scraper that showcases his attention to performance, refactoring, and production-ready engineering. Unusually for a software engineer, he began his academic journey in metallurgical engineering, an origin that reflects a curiosity for complex, physical systems as well as software.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Github Skills (23)
webscraper10
python10
scrape10
scraper10
webscraping10
scrapy10
data-scraping10
command-line-tool10
screen-scraping10
lxml9
http-request9
pypi9
threaded8
multithreading8
hyper-threading8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sananth12/ImageScraper
May 2014 - May 2017
:scissors: High performance, multi-threaded image scraper
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 218 commits, 63 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Anantha primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the image scraper. They added features like downloading images, implemented a progress bar, and fixed bugs. Further contributions include refactoring the code, adding the ability to specify the number of images to download, and incorporating basic proxy support. The user also worked on upgrading the project and fixing pep8 violations.
scissorsimage-scraperperformancemulti-threadedscraper
sananth12/sauron
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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