Saju Pillai
SVP Of Engineering at Kong Inc.
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSaju Pillai is an engineering executive with 17 years building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency API platforms and global engineering teams. As SVP of Engineering at Kong he focuses on pushing near-infinite throughput with minimal latency across API management, security, and integrations SaaS products. Previously he ran ~1,500 people as CTO of SAP Concur and rebuilt core travel systems and AWS infrastructure at scale, including FedRAMP-mindful designs. He’s a founder-turned-operator who bootstrapped and grew Idea Device to acquisition, blending hands-on backend engineering with product and go-to-market experience. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has deep distributed systems and CDN roots from Oracle that inform his architecture decisions today. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs pragmatic execution with a long-term view on platform reliability and global scaling.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electronics and Communication, BE Electronics and Communication at University of Madras
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
documentation9
sgx9
embedded9
webassembly8
pthread8
aot8
jit8
interpreter8
iot7
pyparsing6
rust6
python6
kong3
portal3
kong-plugin3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
saju/saju.github.io
Oct 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
saju/mod_auth_remote
Nov 2008 - Sep 2011
Contributions:23 commits in 2 years 10 months
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