Summary
Arut Dhanasekaran is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend and developer-facing systems, currently contributing to WhatsApp infrastructure at Meta. He brings a strong full-stack toolkit—Python, JavaScript (React, Electron), and Java—paired with practical experience in encryption, monitoring, and performance tooling from roles at JPMorgan Chase and ServiceNow. Arut has shipped features ranging from Monaco editor autocompletion and swc transpiler optimizations to unified encryption monitoring and RESTful automation services, demonstrating a blend of low-level systems insight and user-facing product thinking. His academic work includes applied computer vision with a fast-RCNN for corrosion detection, reflecting a longer-standing interest in ML/NLP highlighted on his GitHub. Based in San Francisco, he combines production-grade engineering with a curiosity for language- and vision-focused problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary School, Higher Secondary School at Jawahar Higher Secondary School (CBSE)
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering with Minor in Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering with Minor in Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Secondary School, Secondary School at Jawahar Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Neyveli
English, Tamil