Summary
Kiruba Swaminathan is a Staff Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and operating high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed systems and data platforms across cloud and on‑prem environments. He brings deep expertise in databases (Postgres/Aurora, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB) and large‑scale migrations, having led multi‑hundred‑terabyte migrations and managed 50+ TB Cassandra clusters and 70+ Elasticsearch clusters. Skilled across a broad stack—C#, Python, Go, Java, .NET, Kubernetes/Nomad, Terraform, Docker and AWS—he blends software architecture, DB reliability engineering, and DevOps to deliver zero‑downtime upgrades and production resilience. Kiruba has a proven track record building multi‑tenant control planes, performance‑tuned data models, and service‑oriented microservices for demanding workloads. Known for pragmatic automation (CloudFormation, Ansible, CI/CD) and hands‑on troubleshooting (bash, awk, sed, performance profiling), he pairs a systems mindset with product delivery focus. Based in South Amboy, NJ, he also holds an MS in Software Development and a history of driving modernization from legacy DB2/Greenplum systems to cloud data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Development, Master of Science - MS Software Development at Grand Canyon University
Bachelor of Computer Application Computer, Bachelor of Computer Application Computer at Swami Dayananda College of Arts and Science
English, Tamil