Surya Pandian
Senior Software Engineer at TrueLayer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSurya Pandian is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems using Rust and Go and expertise in relational storage like PostgreSQL and MySQL. At TrueLayer he has driven platform-wide developer productivity improvements—enabling continuous delivery into Kubernetes with Flux, migrating clusters to EKS, and creating migration tooling that saved significant CPU and engineering effort. His background includes performance-focused work in core banking (query optimization, gRPC migrations) and large-scale media systems where he partitioned multi-million record databases with zero downtime. He also has hands-on experience building event-driven microservices and ML-powered image classification pipelines earlier in his career, showing breadth from infra to applied ML. Outside engineering he contributes to education governance as a Link Governor for EAL at a London primary school, reflecting a commitment to community impact beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) ECE(engineering), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) ECE(engineering) at MEPCO
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam
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Github Skills (196)
reconciler10
cargo10
hyper10
rust-lang10
io-uring10
fluxcd10
reqwest10
idris10
rust10
async9
tonic9
middleware9
charts9
helm9
github-api9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
suryapandian/drona
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 59 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
suryapandian/misc_prog
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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