Santhosh Shanmugham is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable compute and distributed systems across AWS, Twitter, Databricks, and now Airbnb. He specializes in Kubernetes-based compute platforms and backend/devops work, with a track record of improving job immutability and CI quality in notable open-source projects like Apache Aurora. Comfortable moving between high-scale production services and contributor-level maintenance, he has shipped features that replaced legacy behaviors (e.g., moving to health-check driven updates) and re-enabled rigorous Python style checks in integration builds. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from Purdue with a background in physics, bringing both systems rigor and an experimental mindset to complex infra problems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue University
Apache Aurora - A Mesos framework for long-running services, cron jobs, and ad-hoc jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:27 commits, 13 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh contributed to improving the codebase by addressing style checks, fixing existing issues, and re-enabling the Python style check in the integration build. They also introduced new features such as adding `UpdateMetadata` fields in `JobUpdateRequest`. Additionally, the user worked on changing the framework name from 'TwitterScheduler' to 'Aurora' and resolving docker tags to concrete identifiers for DockerContainerizer, which enhances job immutability. Furthermore, they modified the codebase to use `health-checks` rather than `watch_secs` for job updates and extended warm-up time.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
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