Arun Sethuramalingam
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolArun Sethuramalingam is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10+ years building service infrastructure at LinkedIn and prior backend systems experience at AWS. He specializes in scalable, production-grade distributed services and has contributed to Rest.li, LinkedIn’s widely used REST+JSON framework, improving server-side behavior for batch operations and core encoding/comparator logic. Arun’s career traces steady technical progression from SDE roles at Amazon to senior infrastructure leadership at LinkedIn, reflecting deep expertise in backend APIs, discovery, and asynchronous systems. Known for pragmatic bug fixes that improve long-running platform reliability, he pairs hands-on coding with system-level design thinking and mentorship across engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Thiagarajar College of EngineeringMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/rest.li
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 65 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Arun primarily contributed to the `rest.li` framework, focusing on fixing bugs and implementing improvements to its server-side components. Their work involved resolving issues related to batch operations and the comparison of keys. They also modified core framework components by adding projection mask setters within the `ServerResourceContext` interface and other related classes. Additionally, they fixed comparator logic in `ResourceModelEncoder`.
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
saponniah/graphql-java
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
GraphQL Java implementation
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 months
javagraphql-javagraphql
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