Arun Annamalai
Software Engineer at Stripe
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Annamalai is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently working on Stripe’s billing platform in New York. He brings strong systems and container expertise from multiple roles at AWS—contributing to ECS/Fargate and implementing Exec/Windows support—and has improved observability and telemetry for Amazon Ads. Comfortable in Python, Java, and Go, Arun co-founded the open-source Blankly framework and contributed backend enhancements to the popular blankly-finance project, adding Alpaca and Binance integrations. He pairs technical depth with business insight from a dual degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, and experience leading algorithmic teams and deployment pipelines. Notably, he has a track record of shipping cross-platform container features and refactoring platform-specific logic to improve maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Novi High School
Github Skills (23)
amazon-ecs10
python10
apidoc10
go10
api10
aws10
algorithmic-trading10
trading9
application-framework9
dockers9
windows9
docker9
app-framework9
binance9
web-framework9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:76 reviews, 12 commits, 37 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Arun primarily focused on enhancing the Exec Command functionality within the ECS agent. They refactored code for platform-specific implementations, specifically Windows and Linux, decoupling the logic to improve maintainability. Their contributions included adding checks for SSM plugins, modifying the agent's capabilities, and implementing core logic for managing and starting Exec Command tasks. Furthermore, the user created and updated the test infrastructure for the Windows platform.
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blankly-finance/blankly
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
🚀 💸 Easily build, backtest and deploy your algo in just a few lines of code. Trade stocks, cryptos, and forex across exchanges w/ one package.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 19 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Arun focused on improving the `blankly` Python library, a tool for algorithmic trading. They removed a deprecated thread library and updated the project's GitHub link. Further contributions involved refactoring exchange interface creation, including the integration of a new Alpaca exchange interface. The user also added direct API calls for Binance, enhancing the library's trading capabilities.
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