Rama Palaniappan
Principal Software Engineer, API Platform
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRama Palaniappan is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Diego with over 20 years of software experience and a decade-plus focused at Intuit driving API and developer platform initiatives. He designs and delivers high-scale, high-performance enterprise systems—most recently leading Intuit’s API Platform and company-wide Test Execution and CI/CD automation for mobile, web UI, and services. His background spans backend architectures, mobile crash reporting and symbolication, search and feed processing on Hadoop, and enterprise integration at Oracle, reflecting deep systems and platform expertise. Known for turning operational pain points into automated, testable platforms, he has onboarded dozens of mobile apps and integrated tooling into developer workflows. Rama combines hands-on engineering with cross-team leadership and a track record of improving reliability and deployment velocity in large organizations. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering and brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach informed by early work in predictive analytics and large-scale search systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE Mechanical Engineering, BE Mechanical Engineering at PSG College of Technology
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Github Skills (84)
testing10
selenium-grid10
browserstack10
live-preview10
capybara10
saucelabs10
selenium10
docker-selenium10
passwords10
grid10
recording9
mask9
netflix-dgs9
scalable9
security9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ramapalani/zalenium
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
A flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview, basic auth & dashboard.
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
flexiblescalablevideo-recordingdockerrecording
ramapalani/sparseupdate
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
GraphQL Sparse Update: https://github.com/Netflix/dgs-codegen/issues/609
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 9 months
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