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Sundar Lakshmanan

Washington

Summary

  • Professional with over 15 years of experience in designing and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. Achieved $7 million monthly cost savings through the implementation of advanced autoscaling solutions.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Backend Engineer

Epic Games
Bellevue
09.2021 - Current
  • Architected and maintained a multi-cloud platform leveraging Azure, AWS, and GCP to ensure latency-sensitive game server deployments for Fortnite.
  • Redesigned the autoscaling system by leveraging time series forecasting techniques, leading to a shift from reactive to predictive scaling strategies. Reduced the cloud cost by ~5 million dollars.
  • Facilitated cross-team adoption of cloud infrastructure by collaborating with game development teams, ensuring seamless onboarding onto the cost-saving autoscaling platform. Reduced the cloud cost by ~2 million dollars

Software Engineer

Amazon.com
Bellevue
10.2019 - 09.2021
  • Designed and implemented features to improve the routing algorithms that are used to deliver package to the amazon customers world-wide.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services
Bellevue
02.2014 - 09.2019
  • Built a failure detection system to monitor a fleet of millions of ELB nodes and identify and replace the failed nodes automatically.
  • Designed the automatic detection of stopping and restarting of the registered backends of the customer's load balancer.
  • Involved in the design and implementation of a scaling system that automatically scales the capacity of the customers load balancers.
  • Designed and implemented the system that publishes the Network Load Balancer customer usage metrics to cloudwatch.
  • Built the prototype for AWS IoT secure tunneling.
  • Involved in the design and implementation of the AWS IoT Secure Tunneling.
  • Part of the team that is responsible for managing the capacity for AWS EC2 compute instances.

Education

Master's - Computer Engineering

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
01.2013

Bachelor's - Information Technology

Sona College of Technology
Salem, Tamil Nadu, India
01.2008

Skills

  • Go programming language
  • C programming
  • Java development
  • Ruby programming
  • Python scripting
  • Shell scripting
  • AWS EC2 and ECS
  • AWS S3 and ELB
  • AWS NLB and Route 53
  • AWS IAM and SNS
  • AWS SQS and DynamoDB
  • AWS Kinesis and Auto Scaling
  • AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail
  • AWS CloudFormation and VPC
  • AWS API Gateway and Lambda
  • AWS Elasticsearch and IoT
  • AWS KMS and Redshift
  • AWS Batch processing
  • Google Cloud Compute
  • Azure virtual machines

Timeline

Senior Backend Engineer

Epic Games
09.2021 - Current

Software Engineer

Amazon.com
10.2019 - 09.2021

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services
02.2014 - 09.2019

Master's - Computer Engineering

Syracuse University

Bachelor's - Information Technology

Sona College of Technology
Sundar Lakshmanan