Ashwin Gopalsamy
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
India
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Top SchoolAshwin Gopalsamy is a Staff Software Engineer based in India who specializes in building internet-scale, high-throughput distributed systems that handle billions of interactions. With six years of experience across fintech and core-banking platforms, he has driven engineering excellence at Solaris SE, Pismo, and now within Visa’s VAS product unit following an M&A. He combines product-focused engineering with a pragmatic curiosity—asking the right questions, finding the right people, and designing systems meant to be correct, reliable, and long-lived even as AI lowers the cost of “acceptable” software. Trained on MIT’s 6.824 distributed systems material and experienced in cloud-native architectures, he favors practical solutions that scale in production. An active blogger and open-source contributor, he positions himself as a force-multiplier who amplifies team impact rather than doing everything solo.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT’s 6.824: Distributed Systems, MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT’s 6.824: Distributed Systems at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology
தமிழ் / tamil, English, deutsch / german
Github Skills (100)
github10
python10
api-client10
nanoid10
uuid10
cpp10
creative-commons10
questions-and-answers10
javascript10
shieldsio10
golang10
database10
git10
identifier10
java10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ashwin2125/ashwin2125.github.io
Feb 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 3 months
ashwingopalsamy/host-personalportfolio-website
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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