Summary
Yogesh Dhanapal is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput backend systems and spatial data platforms. Currently at Amazon, he architects and operates scalable APIs and spatial pipelines that power mapping, real-time traffic tiles, and offline map packages for delivery and navigation at production scale. His expertise spans distributed systems, Spark, satellite and aerial image processing, PostGIS, and AWS serverless/container services, combining deep geospatial domain knowledge with production-grade engineering. Earlier roles show a steady evolution from GIS desktop and ArcGIS automation to modern microservices and data lakes, reflecting a rare blend of cartography, computational geometry, and platform engineering. Based in Virginia, he is also an author and software architect who enjoys designing concurrent, highly optimized data pipelines that handle thousands of TPS.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BE Geo-informatics, BE Geo-informatics at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, Tamil