Jairam Venkitachalam
Software Engineer 2 at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJairam Venkitachalam is a software engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale, production-grade backend systems at Amazon, Adobe, and Cisco, and is currently at Amazon in Seattle. He specializes in distributed systems and backend services using Go, Java, C/C++, and Python, and has deep operational experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL. At Adobe he scaled a cross-product commenting system to handle 10M+ daily interactions, engineered a 100M+ asset migration tool with Kafka failsafes, and cut Redis memory usage by 30% through pragmatic tuning. His background includes research in CNNs for protein–protein docking, reflecting an ongoing interest in machine learning applied to real-world problems. Known for improving reliability through robust testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and cluster tuning, he pairs strong implementation skills with hands-on operational ownership.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St.Gregorios School, New DelhiMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jvenkit1/resume
Sep 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
jvenkit1/kafkapoc
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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