Siemel Naran is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with nine years of focused experience building high-performance, scalable full‑stack systems from Oracle and Siebel-era backends to modern cloud-native services at Salesforce. He combines a physics-trained analytical mindset with deep hands-on expertise in Java, Scala, Kotlin, JavaScript/React/Angular, and data platforms to model complex real‑world problems into efficient, maintainable code. Siemel has led architecture and performance work across billing, CRM, streaming/meeting products, and NLP features, and he mentors engineers while instrumenting systems with metrics for reliability and scalability. A former CTO and entrepreneur who built an education app and a client-facing tax portal, he brings product intuition alongside backend rigor. Based in San Carlos, CA, he pairs academic depth with practical delivery, evidenced by a long track record of cross-cutting systems work and a patent for long-lived data transactions.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Physics, English Literature, BS, Physics, English Literature at University of Chicago
Contributions:19 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
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