Renju Radhakrishnan
Senior Software Engineer at Square
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRenju Radhakrishnan is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building planet-scale distributed systems, having shipped core infrastructure at AWS Kinesis and Facebook Infra and currently contributing at Square. He specializes in asynchronous messaging and data streaming technologies—Kafka, Kinesis, and Kafka Streams—and writes production services in Python, Java, Kotlin, and Go. Renju has tackled large-scale storage and worldwide deployments handling billions of messages, and brings hands-on expertise in event-driven architectures, gRPC, and operational excellence. Early full‑stack roles gave him broad exposure from serverless AWS stacks to front-end work, so he comfortably spans backend, infra, and observable systems. A long-time Vim user, he pairs pragmatic tooling habits with a strong focus on reliability and scalable message pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Drexel University
English
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Github Skills (17)
amazon-kinesis10
java10
apache-kafka8
go8
sarama8
bootstrapping8
kafka8
angularjs7
nodejs6
socket-io6
hermit5
client-library5
amazon4
aws3
testing3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Renjuju/Checkers
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Checkers web app built in NodeJS, AngularJS, SocketIO
Contributions:108 commits, 27 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
angularjsnodejssocket-io
Renjuju/amazon-kinesis-client
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Client library for Amazon Kinesis
Contributions:75 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 3 months
kinesisclient-libraryamazonamazon-kinesisaws
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