Azhaguselvan Sivamurugan
Staff Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAzhaguselvan Sivamurugan is a Staff Data Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure across startups and large platforms. He blends deep backend expertise in Scala, Ruby, and Python with hands-on big data work using Spark/Scalding and production AWS deployments, often owning both data platform design and operational tooling. His career spans roles at Delivery Hero, Zalando, EyeEm and Indix where he led customer data platform efforts, product data ingestion pipelines, and resilient microservice integrations. Comfortable across web frameworks (Rails, Django, Play) and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Docker, Mesos), he also contributes to open-source projects, improving backend robustness and security in widely used tools like the selfoss RSS project. Notably, he pairs system-level thinking with pragmatic feature delivery—evident from shipping asynchronous analytics pipelines and OCR-backed contract-processing systems early in his career.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Matriculation Matriculation, Matriculation Matriculation at Zion good Shepherd's Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolB.E Computer Science & Engineering, B.E Computer Science & Engineering at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, MaduraiHSC, HSC at TVS Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madurai
English, Tamil, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
mysql10
php10
xss10
database-design9
webapp8
aggregator8
json7
mercurial6
aws-batch6
sqlite6
amazon-web-services6
python6
django6
git6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fossar/selfoss
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Azhaguselvan primarily contributed to improving the application's backend functionality by fixing bugs and implementing new features. They added a global error bar to display error messages across various application areas. The user also made database-related changes, including cleaning up and modifying the database queries, and enhanced the source management features by addressing duplicate entries and preventing XSS vulnerabilities. They also modified the front-end and Javascript files.
live-streamrssmultipurposeaggregationrss-reader
tamizhgeek/zipeggs
Aug 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
zipbuildouteggs
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