Ashwin Sekar
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Tableau Software
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Sekar is a Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Kirkland, WA, with 11 years of experience building scalable, customer-focused software and platform instrumentation. He has driven backend and DevOps improvements at scale—contributing to the Solana blockchain by hardening build/deploy pipelines, test infrastructure, and voting/governance logic to improve reliability and performance. At Tableau and ServiceNow he has bridged analytics, security, and platform concerns, shipping production systems and instrumentation while mentoring teams on robust delivery. Early career work spans end-to-end systems from traffic/mapping applications and OLAP data warehouses to high-volume reporting platforms at MasterCard, showing depth across Java, distributed systems, and deployment automation. Language-agnostic and pragmatic, he prefers building things from the ground up and has a track record of surfacing subtle race conditions and operational gaps before they affect customers. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology and combines product-driven thinking with hands-on systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Computer Science & Engineering, B.E, Computer Science & Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering (SVCE)M.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
sh10
script10
bash10
rust10
shell10
solana10
scripting10
blockchain10
devops9
distributed-systems9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
solana-labs/solana
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:575 reviews, 38 commits, 254 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain platform. They made improvements to build and deployment scripts, network shaping configurations, and test infrastructure. Furthermore, the user was involved in refining the voting and governance mechanisms within the platform, including addressing race conditions, and improving the reliability and performance of the system. Their work also involved adding features to enable support for new vote instructions and improving test coverage.
securescalablesolanamarketplacesdapp
solana-program/slashing
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
The SPL Slashing Program and its clients
Contributions:68 reviews, 18 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 months
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