Surendar Chandra
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSurendar Chandra is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of industry experience, currently building distributed systems at Amazon Web Services from Palo Alto. His career blends deep research roots and product engineering—spanning academia, research labs, and cloud/enterprise storage—specializing in multimedia, mobile collaboration, storage, sensor systems and security. At Rubrik he drove large-scale rearchitectures (lambda, logging, AD integration) and boosted API throughput by moving to HTTP/2, while at Datrium he co-designed a novel partitioned encryption system that balanced performance and FIPS-compliance. He has a long track record of turning research prototypes into production-quality systems, including high-performance screen sharing and tele-immersive streaming, and has led work on scalable telemetry and analytics pipelines using Kafka and Druid. Surendar combines systems-level cryptography, storage internals and pragmatic operational thinking, and is comfortable debugging obscure interactions across protocols, browsers and distributed frameworks. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a history of cross-disciplinary internships and faculty positions that inform his engineering judgment.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute6, 6 at Caldwell high school tuticorin6-10, 6-10 at SLB Higher Secondary school, Nagercoil11, 11 at C.S.I. Higher Secondary School, NagapattinamBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at College of Engineering Guindy, ChennaiPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Duke University6, 6 at Holy redeemers higher secondary school, Thisayanvilai12, 12 at St. John's Higher Secondary School, Palayamkottai
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
47reputation
5kreached
0answers
3questions
Github Skills (2)
unhandled-exceptions6
macos6
Github contributions (2)
DisplayCast/OSX-IOS
May 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:27 commits in 4 months
DisplayCast/Win7
May 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.