Summary
Raam N is a senior backend engineer and technical lead with 9 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, real-time data platforms, currently leading Uber Freight’s Data Platform efforts from Tempe, AZ. He has driven Kafka-based streaming, on-prem to GCP migrations, and production real-time fraud detection pipelines using Flink, Pinot, and Spark, combining a strong focus on reliability, performance, and cost governance. Deep expertise in Go, Kafka, Flink, gRPC and cloud-native patterns enables him to lead cross-team initiatives and mentor engineers into higher-impact roles. His background spans enterprise product engineering at Zoho and graduate-level CS teaching, giving him both practical system-building chops and a knack for clear technical communication. Notably, he architects observability and alerting systems that tie platform health to business SLAs, ensuring data infrastructure is both performant and accountable.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Arizona State University
Tamil, French, English