Ashwin Ramesh
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Ashwin Ramesh is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building distributed systems, SDN solutions, and database internals across startups and large tech firms. Currently at AWS, he has a strong backend focus informed by earlier hands-on work at DGraph Labs, where he contributed significant core changes to a high-performance graph database—implementing UID assignment passes, indexing, grouping, and geolocation features in Go. His background spans finance-grade engineering at Goldman Sachs and performance-focused systems at DGraph, giving him a rare blend of reliability, scalability, and low-level database expertise. An IIT Madras alumnus and active GitHub contributor, he brings pragmatic design sense to complex backend problems and a proven track record of shipping production-grade storage and distributed components.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
go10
indexing10
database-design10
data-structure10
database9
back-end-development9
databases9
knowledge-graph8
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hypermodeinc/dgraph
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 releases, 350 commits, 411 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin's commits primarily focus on implementing and refining backend functionalities within the Dgraph database. Their work involves significant changes to core database logic, specifically related to the assignment of unique identifiers (UIDs) in a separate pass. They introduced features for managing groups and for integrating new database functionalities through the use of Go programming language. The code changes also include the addition of support for features such as data and key indexing capabilities and support for geolocation based functions, demonstrating a strong understanding of database internals.
graphql-serverproductiondatabasegolanggraphql-database
ashwin95r/ashwin95r.github.io
Dec 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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