Summary
Ashwin Sankaralingam is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building distributed backend systems and AI-driven decisioning at companies like Amazon and Workday. He specializes in recommenders, bandit-based ranking, cloud infrastructure optimization, and real-time agent orchestration, turning complex data into production impact across retail and experimental platforms. At Amazon he shipped ranking systems for subsidiaries such as Zappos and IMDb, and today focuses on evals, orchestration, and memory management for realtime agents. A former graduate teaching assistant in C++ and an intern who optimized drivers and migration pipelines, he blends deep systems engineering with practical mentorship and efficiency-minded design. Based in Boulder, he brings a pragmatic, experimentation-first approach to scalable AI systems and autonomous decision workflows.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 8.87, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 8.87 at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.9, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Tamil, French, Hindi, Tamil