Senior Software Engineer · AWS · Seattle

Same instincts,
different terrain.

Distributed systems and software-defined networking at AWS. The Cascades on weekends. Both reward honest preparation, clear judgment, and the willingness to turn back before conditions force the decision.

Selected work About
CHENNAI 2012 – 2016 SYDNEY 2016 – 2022 SEATTLE 2022 – now
9+ Years in distributed systems
3 Countries, one thread
AWS Current role, Seattle

Selected work

Work built to stay standing.

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Distributed Graph Database

Dgraph — Real-time Graph Queries at Scale

Contributed to Dgraph at DGraph Labs in Sydney — an open-source distributed graph database written in Go, built for real-time queries on relational data at scale.

Go Distributed Systems Graph Databases RDF Open Source
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Financial Systems

High-Throughput Backend at Goldman Sachs

Backend engineering in financial data pipelines, latency-sensitive services, and systems where correctness is the baseline requirement.

Backend Low Latency Financial Systems
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Cloud Infrastructure · AWS

Distributed Backend Infrastructure at AWS

Senior software engineer on AWS backend teams across Sydney and Seattle. Distributed systems and software-defined networking — focus on fault tolerance, database design, and systems that degrade predictably under pressure.

Distributed Systems Database Design AWS High Availability Systems Design
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The arc

Career and life journey

Chennai, India

2012 – 2016

BTech Computer Science, IIT Madras.

Sydney, Australia

2016 – 2022

DGraph Labs → Goldman Sachs → AWS. Graph databases, financial systems, cloud infrastructure.

Seattle, USA

2022 – present

Senior SDE at AWS. Distributed systems and SDN. Cascades on weekends.

About

Systems and nature — the same instincts apply.

Chennai to Sydney to Seattle. IIT Madras, then a decade building distributed systems across startups, finance, and cloud at AWS.

The Cascades on weekends. Distance simplifies things that proximity makes complex. Both terrain and systems tell the truth eventually — better to read them closely than to admire them from afar.

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Currently reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Kleppmann — always returning

Outside work

Skiing from Banff to Mammoth this year. AIARE Level 1. Backcountry next.

Thinking about

How systems fail gracefully — and what difficulty reveals about design.

Writing

Notes & observations.

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Field notes

Get close enough to know, not guess.

Distance simplifies. Closeness teaches. The Cascades since 2022 — different terrain, same habits of mind.

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Get in touch

Thoughtful conversations welcome.

If you're working on something in distributed systems, infrastructure, or adjacent — or if you have strong opinions about backpacking routes in the North Cascades — I'm reachable.

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