Summary
Mohan Muthukumar is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and automated sourcing infrastructure for sales tax at Avalara. He progressed through multiple engineering and leadership roles at Avalara after joining via Indix, where he helped crawl and parse datasets covering over 2 billion products. Comfortable across the stack, Mohan has designed REST services in Go and Node, Kafka streams in Scala and TypeScript, containerized workloads on Kubernetes, and managed cloud infra with AWS and Terraform. He is an active community organizer and speaker in Chennai’s Docker and Kubernetes circles since 2016, blending hands-on engineering with developer advocacy. Known for pragmatic system design, he often surfaces operational insights from production data to drive robust, scalable pipelines. Based in the Greater Chennai Area, he pairs deep distributed-systems expertise with a knack for explaining complex internals to engineering audiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai