Summary
Arjun Adhia is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems and cloud services, currently based in New York. He was a founding engineer on AWS EMR Serverless, where he architected a multi-tenant resource manager, sped container start times by 90%, and shipped custom image support used by hundreds of customers. His background spans high-throughput cataloging systems at Amazon and rapid product cycles at startups like ModernFi and Traba, giving him strength in both reliability engineering and fast feature delivery. A dual-degree student in Computer Science and Economics at UNC Chapel Hill, he combines technical depth with product-minded judgment and a focus on technology that improves society in practical ways. Notably, he has experience collaborating across platform teams to upgrade core dependencies and implement operational observability that prevents outages before customers notice.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish, Gujarati, English