Summary
Athir Saleem is a versatile software engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems. He has led platform upgrades and migrations—moving teams from manual Ansible/EC2 workflows to Dockerized CI/CD on ECS/ECR, and championed Terraform and TypeScript adoptions to improve reliability and developer velocity. His background spans GraphQL and REST API design, serverless AWS architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS), and both SQL and NoSQL datastores, demonstrating strong operational ownership. Comfortable mentoring teams and interfacing with clients, he combines curiosity about low-level computing with pragmatic delivery, turning deep technical interest into production-ready solutions. Unusually for someone focused on systems, he also has a tutoring background, reflecting an ability to explain complex concepts clearly and lift team capability.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne