Selva Samuel
Senior Engineer at American Express
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolSelva Samuel is a senior software engineer with over 16 years in banking and financial services, currently driving engineering work at American Express from Scottsdale, AZ. He specializes in designing secure, scalable distributed systems using microservices, event-driven and reactive patterns, and has extensive hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Vert.x, Kafka, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, containers and Kubernetes. Selva has 5+ years working on-site in the U.S. and a proven track record delivering cloud-native, multi-tier architectures and CI/CD-driven pipelines for enterprise fintech products. He is valued as an engineering leader who prioritizes quality, consistency, security and disaster recovery while streamlining deployments and production observability. Uncommonly for an architect-level engineer, he combines deep performance- and security-focused remediation experience with practical production runbook and failover automation skills. Trained at BITS Pilani (M.S.) and Thiagarajar College of Engineering (BE), he bridges strong academic grounding with long-term delivery in large financial institutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBE, ECE, BE, ECE at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (9)
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programming-language8
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astar5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
selvasamuel/docs
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:37 pushes in 4 years 7 months
selvasamuel/wyvern
Jun 2016 - Jan 2021
The Wyvern programming language.
Contributions:60 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 8 months
compilerwyvernprogramming-languageinterpreter
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