Arithran Thurairetnam
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolArithran Thurairetnam is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11+ years building and leading teams that deliver high-performance, cost-efficient platforms processing hundreds of billions in annual volume. He has a strong track record migrating large NodeJS estates to Go, redesigning caching and core services to cut containers by 70%, slash latency to single-digit milliseconds, and boost throughput 10–20x for major live events. Comfortable partnering with executives, he scopes multi-year programs, defines KPIs, and shapes architecture and budget decisions while still writing zero-allocation algorithms and performance-driven libraries. His background spans consumer-scale streaming at Fox, enterprise APIs and authentication at ADP, and bespoke real-time systems for large events, reflecting both hands-on engineering and cross-functional leadership. An early career full-stack and systems builder, he brings a pragmatic mix of product thinking, operational rigor, and deep systems optimization experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level, The General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level at S.Thomas' College, Mount LaviniaBachelor of Science (BSc), Information and Communications Technology, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information and Communications Technology, 1st Class at Birmingham City University
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
1,249reputation
89kreached
30answers
4questions
linux
top-5%
Github Skills (52)
plug10
vim-plugin9
linux9
hidden9
accumulate9
vim8
cakephp8
cookbook8
temporal8
daemon7
statusbar7
statusline7
period7
ipython7
bash7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arithran/vim-pizza
Dec 2017 - Sep 2019
My initial attempt at trying to order pizza from within vim.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
vimvim-pluginpizza-ordervim-scripthungry
arithran/dotfiles
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:269 commits, 243 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
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