Kishan Dhamotharan
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKishan Dhamotharan is a Software Development Engineer II with 10 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems and operating at the intersection of OpenStack, DevOps, and backend engineering. Based in Seattle and currently at Amazon, he brings deep hands-on expertise in microservices, Linux internals, Ruby on Rails, C/C++, Python, and infrastructure automation with Ansible and AWS. He has a proven track record of reducing cloud costs and improving availability—once cutting AWS spend by 36% through automation and spot-instance strategies—while implementing monitoring stacks like ELK and Zabbix. Comfortable across the full lifecycle from design and code reviews to CI/CD and production releases, he blends strong academic foundations (MS in CS, 3.81 GPA) with pragmatic operational experience. Curious about machine learning and image processing, Kishan pairs systems-level thinking with a preference for elegant Ruby solutions and performance-driven designs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.1, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 8.1 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.81 / 4.00, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.81 / 4.00 at University at Buffalo
English, Tamil, HindiProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kishand261194/edgeDetection-templateMatching-SIFTImplementation
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kishand261194/portfolio
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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