Summary
Monishaa Arulalan is a Software Development Engineer II with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and data-driven applications, currently at Amazon after earlier engineering roles at IMDb and Fetch Rewards. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology and has blended academic research—working on AI for biomedical time-series and glucose regulation—with practical product work, including an events aggregation platform built at Qatar Computing Research Institute. Comfortable in Java and Python, she focuses on data analytics, deep learning, and production-ready software on AWS, and has hands-on experience with data cleaning techniques like dynamic time warping and state-space modeling. Known for improving algorithmic efficiency, she bridges research rigor and production constraints to ship reliable features. Based in Vancouver, she brings a global perspective from research and industry projects spanning IoT security prototypes to large-scale content platforms.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Birla Public School
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at College of Engineering, Guindy