Summary
Sundar Annamalai is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering high-performance enterprise and data platforms, now at Intuit. He combines deep Java/J2EE expertise with hands-on experience in big data query engines, distributed systems, and multi-tenant microservices architectures. At Gainsight he led architecture and rebuilt a data load microservice that scaled horizontally and increased throughput fivefold, and at Huawei focused on platform optimizations for open-source distributed query engines. Known for raising test coverage and enforcing strong engineering practices, he mentors teams while owning end-to-end delivery and performance improvements. Based in Ajax, Ontario, he brings a practical focus on customer-facing reliability and incremental delivery, alongside a continuous appetite for refining software design principles. A detail that sets him apart: he routinely blends systems-level performance tuning (HDFS/Presto/Hive) with pragmatic API and metadata versioning to preserve backward compatibility in production.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Sona College of Technology, Salem
Tamil, English