Sudheer Ponnemkunnath
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSudheer Ponnemkunnath is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance distributed systems across networking, storage, and database domains. He has progressed from kernel-level driver development at Cisco to building data protection and scale-out file systems at VMware and Nutanix, then contributed to a distributed SQL database at Yugabyte before taking senior engineering and principal roles at Microsoft and Amazon. Sudheer combines deep systems-level expertise with production-scale architecture skills, focusing on reliability, scalability, and storage/datastore internals. His career shows a pattern of tackling foundational infrastructure problems that enable higher-level services, not just feature work. He holds an M.Tech. from IIT Roorkee and a BE in Computer Science, bringing strong academic grounding to pragmatic engineering. Colleagues would note his knack for translating low-level performance constraints into robust, deployable system designs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Mumbai University Mumbai
Github Skills (15)
databases10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
cpp10
postgresql10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
performance-optimization10
relational-databases10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
yugabytedb10
testing8
go4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yugabyte/tpcc
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Repo to run TPCC benchmarks against YugabyteDB
Contributions:11 releases, 89 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year 4 months
yugabytedb
psudheer21/yugabyte-db
Apr 2020 - May 2021
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:30 pushes, 58 branches in 1 year
dbmsrdbmsdistributed-sql-databasedistributed-systemsdatabase
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