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Kavin Arasu

seattle,WA

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Meta - BUSINESS COMPROMISE
Bellevue, WA
02.2025 - Current
  • Designed and Implemented Personal Ad Account recovery which identifies compromised Ad accounts, root compromised users and time time of compromise and recovered the accounts, this led to 7 Million in revenue Annually. (Technologies: PHP, Java, GraphQL, React)
  • Designed and Implemented UR mitigator, this identifies unclean recovery and adds enforcements to those businesses which lead 30 Million in leakage savings Annually. (Technologies: PHP, Java, GraphQL, React)

Software Engineer II

Amazon - AWS S3
Seattle, USA
06.2021 - Current
  • Entropy Auditor Development: Planned, Designed and led the development of the Entropy Auditor, enabling discrepancy detection across 200+ petabytes of data among S3 replicas, ensuring strong consistency. (Technologies: Java, Kotlin)
  • S3 Region Automation: Mentored, led team of 6 engineers to automate the building of new S3 Index regions, reducing build time by 66% and saving an estimated $3 million in capex annually. (Technologies: Java, Python, Ruby)
  • RAD Software Optimization: Identified and Implemented enhancements for the RAD system, cutting S3 Index startup time by 60% through improved entropy detection and resolution. (Technologies: Java, Kotlin)
  • Safeguard Persistence: Developed a secure system for encrypting and storing 64GB data files during shutdown, achieving a 3-minute validation and decoding during startup. (Technologies: Kotlin)
  • Server Security Automation: Automated security updates for over 5,000 servers, resulting in $50,000 in annual savings and enhancing the security posture through OS migration. (Technologies: Java)
  • Java Services Migration: Led the migration of all team Java services to JDK17, mentoring junior engineers throughout the process. (Technologies: Java)

Software Engineer I, II

Wayfair
Boston, USA
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Restful Java Service Development: Planned and led the development of a Restful Java Service to identify product categories uploaded by manufacturers, reducing Opex costs by $120,000 annually. This project was chosen for the Wayfair-wide pilot program to transition from PHP to Java and included contributions to best practices, as well as support for onboarding future teams. (Technologies: Java, MSSQL)
  • Integration of Formulaic Option Services: Spearheaded the integration of Formulaic Option services into the Product Addition tool, achieving an Opex cost reduction of $270,000 per year. (Technologies: Java, PHP, React, Kafka, MSSQL)

Software Developer Intern

NASA/DAAC, ORNL
Oak Ridge, USA
06.2018 - 09.2018
  • Database Architecture for User History: Enhanced the customer experience for DAAC researchers by designing and developing a database architecture for user history, along with a dedicated user history page on the website. (Technologies: Python, MySQL, React)

Education

M.Sc. - Computer Science

Portland State University
USA
01-2019

B.E - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
INDIA
01-2017

Skills

  • Languages: Java, Python, PHP, Kotlin, React
  • Technologies: MySQL, AWS, Cassandra, DynamoDB, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Spark
  • Other: GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker

Timeline

Software Engineer

Meta - BUSINESS COMPROMISE
02.2025 - Current

Software Engineer II

Amazon - AWS S3
06.2021 - Current

Software Engineer I, II

Wayfair
01.2019 - 01.2021

Software Developer Intern

NASA/DAAC, ORNL
06.2018 - 09.2018

B.E - Computer Science

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

M.Sc. - Computer Science

Portland State University
Kavin Arasu