Selvaram Ganeshkumar
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSelvaram Ganeshkumar is a Software Development Engineer II with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and streaming systems, currently on Amazon’s Lookout team in Seattle. He designs and ships high-throughput, low-latency pipelines that process billions of records per minute, and has driven measurable improvements like sub-5-second config propagation and rapid detection of unhealthy hosts. His background includes building sub-second OLAP analytics with Druid, Spark, and Hive at PayPal and real-time ingestion and monitoring platforms using Kafka, Mesos, and Riemann at startups. He combines strong systems and performance engineering (JMH micro-benchmarking, distributed health checks) with hands-on infra automation in AWS and Ansible. Notably, he automated edge POP validation to cut on-boarding by days and contributed architectures that power DDoS and FlashCrowd detection across Amazon’s edge network. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and brings a practical focus on observability, cost optimization, and maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
consolidation8
scala7
rocksdb7
distributed-computing7
blob-storage7
partitioning7
data-storage7
compression6
riemann6
grpc6
database6
mockito6
binding6
junit6
akka-streams6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gsriram7/problems
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
gsriram7/lahacks
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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