Mukundan Sundararajan
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolMukundan Sundararajan is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and real-time data pipelines, currently working on Microsoft's AI platform after a multi-year stint contributing to the open-source Dapr runtime. He has deep hands-on expertise in state stores, transactions, service invocation, and runtime integrations—demonstrated by substantive contributions to high-profile Dapr repos (components-contrib, dapr, cli, java-sdk) that improved serialization, transaction APIs, e2e tests and Kubernetes-aware deployments. Prior roles at Expedia honed his design of event orchestration, caching, and streaming systems using Kafka, Storm and AWS, and he has practical ML collaboration experience tuning models and explaining outputs with SHAP. Based in Chennai, he combines backend and DevOps sensibilities, a strong focus on data consistency and performance, and a habit of refactoring to make complex distributed components more testable and reliable.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PSBBMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (31)
json10
kubernetes10
api-design10
testing10
java10
cicd10
javas10
dapr10
junit10
go10
sdk10
kubernetes-pods10
spring-boot10
state-management10
mockito10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/cli
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Command-line tools for Dapr.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:711 reviews, 91 commits, 348 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mukundan primarily focused on upgrading the linter version and addressing the code issues identified by it. They also made changes in the standalone package, standalone run and added/modified files relating to mtls, and version management, suggesting involvement in core CLI functionality and potential build/release processes. The user's contributions are towards updating the project's dependencies and improving code quality by applying linter fixes to ensure the project adheres to coding standards.
command-line-toolsdaprcli
dapr/dapr
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1103 reviews, 55 commits, 233 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mukundan primarily contributed to the Dapr project by updating dependencies, particularly those related to components-contrib, which indicates work on back-end infrastructure and integration. They also implemented features related to injecting environment variables, and adding related e2e tests demonstrating their knowledge of Kubernetes and deployment. Further commits involved modifying transaction and secret APIs, along with related e2e tests.
sidecarserverlessruntimeevent-drivenmicroservice
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