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.
10 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