Shyam Sunder is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building distributed applications and driving SRE practices at companies like Cognizant, PayPal, Intuit, and ServiceNow. He champions a "Get More with Less Code" philosophy, aiming to create elegant, minimal codebases and even explore "no-code" patterns that simplify maintenance and accelerate delivery. Technically grounded in Java/Spring and Node/Express, he is actively expanding into machine and deep learning and containerization with Docker. At PayPal he balanced hands-on engineering with tech leadership, mentoring peers, running hackathons, and contributing to cutting-edge experiments across infrastructure and application layers. Based in Chennai, he combines full-spectrum development instincts with a finance-aware perspective from IIM Calcutta's executive program. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic simplifier who favors poetic simplicity that still delivers production-grade impact.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pondicherry Engineering College
EPYP Finance and Financial Management Services, EPYP Finance and Financial Management Services at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
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Shyam Sunder - Senior Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow