Naveen Aiathurai
Principal Engineer at Atomicwork
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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SeniorNaveen Aiathurai is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in search infrastructure, Java-based systems, and scalable search architectures. He has repeatedly built large-scale search platforms—designing SaaS search on Kubernetes that handled millions of documents per customer and delivering sub-100ms enterprise search responses with 98% uptime. Naveen blends deep expertise in Lucene/Elasticsearch/OpenSearchServer and relevance algorithms with hands-on skills in build tooling (Maven/Gradle/Ant) and production Linux/Windows operations. He has led cross-functional teams to productionize AI-driven search features like summarization and QA, and has a track record of improving crawler performance and distributed availability. Currently building search at Atomicwork after recent roles focused on vector search and search infrastructure, he brings both engineering leadership and a rare, long-term focus on search quality and operational scale.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
opensearch10
custom-search10
crawler10
thesaurus10
rust10
lucene10
search-engine10
information-retrieval10
apache10
text-search10
full-text-search10
tantivy10
ocr10
indexing10
opensearchserver10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
naveenann/naveenann
Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
searchblox/faceted-search
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
faceted-searchsearch-engineangularjsangularfront-end
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