Summary
Sumathi N is a Principal Software Engineer with 9 years at the senior/lead level and over two decades of hands-on experience building high-performance client applications and developer platforms. Currently on the Microsoft Teams Platform team, she architects and implements React+GraphQL SPAs used by millions while balancing technical complexity with customer needs. Her background spans low-level multimedia systems (DirectShow, C++), rich Windows apps (C#, WPF, MVVM) and modern front-end engineering, giving her a rare ability to diagnose memory leaks and performance bottlenecks across stacks. She has led large migrations (AngularJS→Angular, legacy Windows→cross-platform) and helped establish front-end best practices and testing culture at scale. Quick to learn new paradigms, she combines strong engineering fundamentals, functional programming fluency, and async/reactive design to deliver robust, maintainable systems. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she pairs product-focused pragmatism with deep technical troubleshooting skills that often reveal hidden root causes in complex codebases.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Electronics & Communication Engineering, B.E Electronics & Communication Engineering at Madurai Kamaraj University
M.S Computer Science, M.S Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton