Summary
Arumugam Punnaivanam is a Vice President of Software Development based in Irving, Texas, bringing eight years of hands-on experience building large-scale data systems for banking and enterprise clients. He has deep expertise in Big Data technologies—Apache Spark, Kafka, and NoSQL—combined with practical experience delivering streaming analytics and data engineering at Citi and LTI. Known for turning complex data challenges into reliable production pipelines, he progressed from analyst roles to senior engineering and leadership positions, bridging implementation detail with delivery ownership. His GitHub ethos, "Code to Live," reflects a continuous-improvement mindset and a drive to be better every day, applied both to code quality and team growth. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions and for mentoring engineers moving into distributed systems and real-time processing.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachleor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachleor of Engineering Computer Science at Chatram Bharathi Higher Secondary School
Anna University Chennai