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.
10 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 (35)
client-library10
visual-programming10
pubsub10
backend10
realtime9
airdrop9
javascript9
json9
analytics9
blockchain9
streamr9
js9
payment8
layer28
java8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mthambipillai/i2b2CryptoCell
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
mthambipillai/blockchainSybilAttackResistance
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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