Viraj Hardikar
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolViraj Hardikar is a Software Development Manager at AWS with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that ship large-scale cloud services, currently owning the S3 Console experience for Metadata and Table Buckets. He progressed through hands-on engineering roles at AWS—from SDE I work on S3 request processing and lifecycle features to managing the Certificates team that secured public S3 endpoints and PrivateLink—culminating in a leadership role tied to a feature announced at re:Invent 2024. Based in Greater Vancouver, he blends deep backend systems and cloud infrastructure expertise with product-focused UX delivery for enterprise-scale storage. His background includes automation and orchestration work at Symantec and early open-source-facing contributions around OpenStack during internships, reflecting a strong foundation in deployment and provisioning tooling. Known for mentoring junior engineers and improving development agility and operational safety, he pairs technical depth with people-first management. He holds an M.S. in Computer Software Engineering from San José State University and a B.E. from the University of Mumbai.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (9)
python-client9
openstack8
storage8
cinder8
blockchain8
opendev7
rest7
python7
block-storage4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
hpe-storage/python-3parclient
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
This is a python client that talks to the HPE Alletra 9000 and HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR storage array via REST.
Contributions:36 commits in 20 days
arraypythonprimerapython-clientstorage-array
openstack/cinder
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:3 commits in 1 month
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
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