Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Research Assistant at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAruna Sankaranarayanan is an infrastructure-focused research engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, reliable cloud systems and open-source tooling across academia and industry. Currently at MIT CSAIL, she combines hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering—largely in infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation—with research at the intersection of ML, perception, and human behavior from prior roles at the MIT Media Lab and UC Berkeley. She has deep SRE experience from Mapbox operating services at million-requests-per-minute scale and contributed core deployment and RDS/Postgres upgrades to the widely used HOT Tasking Manager for humanitarian mapping. Comfortable both in production incident response and long-form research projects, she blends rigor from PhD-level environments with pragmatic engineering that supports global, impact-driven mapping and data projects.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at BMS Institute of Technology and Management
Github Skills (15)
autoscaling10
aws-cloudformation10
cloud-infrastructure10
postgresql10
devops9
bash9
script9
python8
dockers7
docker7
javascript7
flask6
flask-ask6
react5
postgis4
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hotosm/tasking-manager
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Tasking Manager - The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:16 commits, 22 PRs, 107 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Aruna primarily focused on infrastructure-as-code and deployment configurations using CloudFormation. They worked on migrating from ELB to ALB, configuring auto-scaling, and updating the CloudFormation template. The user also addressed database configurations, including PostgreSQL upgrades and RDS instance sizing, along with managing environment variables for the application. Their contributions focused on optimizing the deployment process and ensuring the application's scalability and reliability.
pythonflaskjavascriptmappingpostgis
mapbox/spotswap
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 months
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