Chandrasekar Rajasekar
Senior Software Development Engineer at Yahoo
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChandrasekar Rajasekar is a Senior Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience designing and implementing large-scale data and analytics pipelines across on-prem and cloud environments. Based in Champaign, IL, he has led migrations of ETL and search infrastructure to AWS and GCP, and built analytical backends using Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Druid and GraphQL for advertising use cases. He contributes to open-source—improving the well-regarded elide Java library by enhancing API docs, adding advanced filter predicates, and improving maintainability—which reflects a focus on developer experience as well as runtime functionality. His background blends applied data science research (deep learning for text classification) with production engineering, giving him a strong footing in both model-driven and systems-first solutions. Known for pragmatic refactors and test updates, he emphasizes maintainability and clear API surfaces when evolving complex systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Data Science Track, 3.92, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Data Science Track, 3.92 at North Carolina State UniversityAnna University, Chennai
English, Tamil
Github Skills (12)
javas10
graphql10
swagger10
api10
apidoc10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
java10
jtest9
junit9
json-api9
hibernate8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/elide
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Elide is a Java library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 43 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chandrasekar primarily contributed to the `elide` library by adding and configuring Swagger documentation for the standalone application, enabling API documentation. They also refactored code, updated changelogs, and removed testng dependencies, indicating a focus on improving the project's maintainability and developer experience. Additionally, the user made changes related to filter predicates such as adding the `IsEmpty` operator and integrating a memberof operator, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the filtering capabilities of the API. This work included updates to test cases.
standmobileweb-servicejson-apiorm
yahoo/covid-19-api
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Yahoo Knowledge COVID-19 API provides JSON-API and GraphQL interfaces to access COVID-19 publicly sourced data
Contributions:13 commits, 35 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 months
apiknowledgejavascriptyahoographql
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