Arul N
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolArul N is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering distributed systems, currently driving security product design and implementation at Akamai Technologies. He specializes in microservices and hexagonal architectures, translating complex requirements into high-quality, production-ready services using Java, Spring Boot, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, and AWS. Known for mentoring engineers and advocating clean, maintainable APIs, he blends hands-on coding with system-level design and strong problem-solving in large-scale environments. His background spans analytics, provisioning, and financial back-end systems, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for heterogeneous data stores and operational concerns. Based in Norwood, MA, he pairs deep algorithmic instincts with a focus on software design and architecture to reduce technical debt and accelerate delivery. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he consistently influences cross-functional release processes, not just code, helping teams ship features end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science & Engineering, BE, Computer Science & Engineering at Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi
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Github Skills (94)
redis-client10
queue10
json10
shorturl10
filter10
commons9
scheduler9
micronaut9
bloom-filter9
api9
tomcat9
pika9
redis-streams9
batching9
redistimeseries9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arulned/cli-appsec
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 5 months
arulned/aka-open
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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