Melchior Thambipillai
Senior Software Engineer at Swisscom
Lausanne Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolMelchior Thambipillai is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient, real-time monitoring platforms and security-focused distributed systems. An EPFL graduate, he currently architects traceable, anomaly-detection and root-cause analysis pipelines at Swisscom using technologies like Kafka, Prometheus, Spark and Zipkin to minimize MTTR across complex services. His background blends hands-on cyber security research—implementing anomaly-based IDS and P2P authentication/encryption—with production engineering, giving him a rare combination of offensive/defensive security thinking and scalable data engineering. He has applied homomorphic-encryption techniques for privacy-preserving medical queries and contributed practical ML-driven security tooling during his CERN and academic work. Comfortable across Java/Scala ecosystems, cloud-native stacks and observability tooling, he favors pragmatic, measurable solutions that bridge research and production. Based in Lausanne, he brings both academic rigor and startup-style delivery to large-scale, security-sensitive systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaturité gymnasiale (high-school diploma), Physics and Applied Mathematics, Maturité gymnasiale (high-school diploma), Physics and Applied Mathematics at Collège de St-Maurice
Tamil, German, English, French
Github Skills (31)
stream10
realtime9
pubsub9
blockchain9
streamr9
streaming9
backend9
visual-programming9
payment8
decentralization8
java8
analytics8
nodejs8
javascript8
odk8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mthambipillai/i2b2CryptoCell
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
streamr-dev/cloud-broker
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Deprecated in favor of the next-generation network components (see repos broker and network)
Contributions:18 PRs, 54 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 3 months
next-generationblockchainbroker
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