Lakshmanan Arumugam
Senior Software Engineer at Recursion
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolLakshmanan Arumugam is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native data systems, APIs, and tooling across startups and research environments. He has led large-scale data migrations and published a ~100TB image dataset using Dataflow and Apache Beam, and helped release models and datasets on HuggingFace to broaden scientific access. Comfortable across backend, storage, and ML-adjacent infrastructure, he has modernized production APIs with FastAPI, improved observability, and replaced legacy job systems with Pub/Sub-based architectures. His background includes machine-learning research from the University of Waterloo, where he worked on semantic code search and built research-grade tooling like a centralized artifact curation web app. Practically minded, he also ships user-facing improvements—examples include FreshBooks payment features and keyboard navigation that reduced clicks for millions of rows of customers. Based in Toronto, he blends research rigor with production engineering to make data- and ML-driven systems more reliable and accessible.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information technology, Computer science, Bachelor of Information technology, Computer science at Thiagarajar College of EngineeringMaster of Mathematics, Computer Science, Master of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (133)
python10
self-attention10
streaming10
sql10
golang10
batch10
java10
beam9
representation-learning9
big-data9
data-processing9
deep-learning9
flask9
rewrite9
yahoo-api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Laksh47/crawler-demo
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Demo crawler
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
crawler
Laksh47/realtime-quotes
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Browser extension that fetches realtime price quotes (using stocks tickers) powered by Yahoo API
Contributions:104 commits, 15 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 months
apirealtimebrowsertickersclient-side
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