Shehan Suresh
Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolShehan Suresh is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building high-velocity platform tooling and data systems in production environments. Currently at Citadel, he focuses on platform engineering—building Python-based abstractions and orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, and GCP to accelerate research workflows. His background spans fraud-detection and ML feature engineering at Capital One and Wish, where he shipped latency and memory optimizations that materially improved model performance and business metrics. Early roles at IBM and NI highlight full-stack backend work, custom search indexing, and real-time WebRTC services, reflecting comfort across systems and low-latency architectures. A Waterloo software engineering graduate with a near-perfect GPA, he pairs strong academic rigor with practical impact, from reducing EC2 memory by 75% to cutting request latency by 90%. Outside enterprise work he has longstanding roots in competitive robotics, where he led teams and produced production-quality control code—an indicator of his iterative, hardware-aware engineering mindset.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, 3.97/4, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, 3.97/4 at University of Waterloo
English, French, Tamil
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FYDP-SAAC/yada
May 2020 - May 2021
yet another docs app
Contributions:58 reviews, 61 PRs, 103 pushes in 11 months
yet-anotherreactdocs-app
Shehan29/Website
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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