Syamala Umamaheswaran
Software Engineer at zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorSyamala Umamaheswaran is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and product features across automotive and e-commerce domains in Berlin. She has led engineering teams at Zalando and contributed end-to-end to product development at Volkswagen, with earlier roles designing BI solutions and driving technology strategy for startups. A pragmatic backend developer, she has open-source contributions to notable projects like Concourse, where she improved NewRelic metrics configuration to support EU deployments and strengthened test coverage. Beyond code, Syamala is an active public speaker and blogger who founded Indian Women in Tech Berlin and hosts meetups that center diversity and inclusion. She combines hands-on engineering with community-building, helping peers transition into tech roles in Germany. Her profile reflects a rare mix of production-grade backend work, leadership experience, and sustained commitment to growing inclusive tech communities.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, German
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Github Skills (5)
newrelic10
go10
continuous-integration10
cicd10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/concourse
May 2020 - May 2020
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Syamala primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of NewRelic metrics integration. Their work involved adding a configuration option for the NewRelic insights URL, enabling support for EU-based accounts. They also fixed a test assertion to ensure the correct URL was used for sending events. These changes involved modifications to the `newrelic.go` and `newrelic_test.go` files.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
shyamz-22/openid-connect-client
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:101 commits, 19 pushes, 23 tags in 1 month
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