Raja Ganesan
Software Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarRaja Ganesan is a Software Architect based in Vancouver with 10 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems and developer tooling. He blends hands-on engineering with architecture, contributing to prominent open-source projects like Zipkin where he led Micrometer integration, Spring Boot 2 migrations, and UI improvements—efforts that improved observability and production readiness. Raja's skillset spans backend development, DevOps, and performance-focused refactoring, with a practical eye for removing noisy metrics and streamlining Prometheus configurations. Colleagues know him as an engineer/architect/builder who bridges code-level fixes and system-wide design, delivering measurable reliability gains.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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36answers
11questions
spring-boot
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Github Skills (21)
observability10
distributed-tracing10
java10
javas10
prometheus10
spring-boot10
micrometer10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
uid8
front-end-development8
ui-design8
jpa6
spring-data-jpa6
nodejs6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openzipkin/zipkin
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 48 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Raja primarily contributed to the integration of Micrometer metrics into the Zipkin server and UI, replacing previous metric implementations. They also refactored the codebase to align with Spring Boot 2, upgrading dependencies and configurations. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the UI, migrating to Bootstrap 4 and fixing date pickers and text overflows. Additionally, the user excluded health paths and other UI paths from prometheus metrics configuration.
distributed-tracingzipkintracingopenzipkinobservability
zeagord/bootifulmeters
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Springboot Micrometer with Prometheus and Grafana
Contributions:25 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
grafanaprometheusspring-boot
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