Gokul Soundararajan
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGokul Soundararajan is a Principal Engineer at AWS with 14 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems from research to production. With a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a career that spans NetApp research, Datrium, and a long tenure at AWS, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic engineering. He has evolved through technical leadership roles—senior to principal—focused on cloud infrastructure and storage engineering across Palo Alto and San Jose. Known for steady continuous improvement, he pairs mentoring and architectural stewardship with hands-on coding to solve hard systems problems. A less obvious strength is his sustained academic-to-industry trajectory, which gives him a rare fluency in translating research insights into production-grade services.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Tamil, English
Github Skills (11)
backend6
storage5
apache-hadoop4
cloud-storage4
apache3
spark3
apache-spark3
ccache2
hadoop2
aws1
terraform1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gsoundar/hadoop-bench
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
gsoundar/hadoop
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
apachebig-datahadoopjavaapache-hadoop
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