Vancheswaran A
Senior Principal Engineer at Zendesk
Singapore
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Top SchoolVancheswaran A is a Senior Principal Engineer and architectural lead at Zendesk in Singapore with 13 years of experience building scalable support-product platforms. He drives the architecture for Zendesk's flagship Support-Suite, blending product-focused design with pragmatic engineering to keep systems "beautifully simple" while operating at scale. His hands-on work spans backend systems, databases, and streaming integrations—evidenced by contributions to the Maxwell MySQL-to-Kafka producer to improve partitioning, topic configuration, and replication checks for more reliable data delivery. With an MS in Computer Science from Rutgers and a BE from NIT Calicut, he pairs strong academic foundations with deep production experience and a knack for translating complex data flows into robust, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
B.E., Computer Science and Engineering, B.E., Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology CalicutMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (9)
javas10
kafka10
mysql10
java10
database-design9
message-queue8
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
binlog7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/maxwell
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Maxwell's daemon, a mysql-to-json kafka producer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vancheswaran focused on enhancing the Maxwell Kafka producer, adding features for more efficient data delivery. They implemented database name retrieval and partitioning logic within the Kafka producer to improve message routing. Furthermore, the user added checks for replication settings and introduced options for Kafka topic configuration. These changes demonstrate a focus on data streaming and database integration.
to-jsonavrosinkmysqldaemon
zendesk/radar_client
May 2013 - Jul 2018
High level API and backend for writing web apps that use push messaging
Contributions:83 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 2 months
apipushhigh-levelweb-appshigh-level-api
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