Sumu Pitchayan
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSumu Pitchayan is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems, currently contributing to AWS on the CDK where he implemented App Mesh and API Gateway features and ensured region and validation compatibility for new services. Based in the New York City area, he blends practical cloud engineering with a strong quantitative background from Brown University in Computer Science and Economics and study abroad experience at the University of Amsterdam. His early internships at Apple (AppKit & SwiftUI) and finance firms like Jane Street and Bridgewater reflect a rare mix of product-focused engineering and exposure to high-performance trading and portfolio workflows. He is comfortable shipping infrastructure-level code, writing unit-validated changes in widely used open-source projects, and translating complex cross-team requirements into reliable platform features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science-Economics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science-Economics at Brown UniversityStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at University of AmsterdamAdvanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at The Wheatley School
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Github Skills (17)
aws-cdk10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
typescript-types10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
aws-api-gateway-v29
aws-apigateway9
aws-cloudformation8
swift6
audio6
xcode6
avfoundation6
mp46
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:195 reviews, 1 commit, 42 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sumu contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by implementing features and fixing bugs related to AWS App Mesh and API Gateway. They added a new property to an interface and validated the change with unit tests. They also integrated new features for the AWS API Gateway, including validation and ensuring the API Gateway stage variables match the required regular expression. Furthermore, they modified existing CDK modules to support features for new AWS regions and other AWS services.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
sumupitchayan/aws-cdk
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 14 days
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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