Arun Thundyill Saseendran
Hands-on Software Engineering Leader
10+ years of experience in the industry designing, building and leading Large-scale Enterprise Software. Finds joy in taking up challenging work and takes pride in helping great organisations create high-impact software making the world a better place. Enjoys playing with latest tech. Loves Family and enjoys hiking, photography and long drives during leisure.
Professional Summary
– 4+ years of experience in leading high-impact engineering teams
– Agile, DevSecOps and CleanCode Evangelist
– 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Application Design and Development (Java, Go and Python)
– 7+ years of experience as DevOps Subject Matter Expert (Design of CI/CD pipeline and implementation)
– 6+ years of experience Architecting Enterprise Applications – Cloud Native, Microservices
– Good knowledge and interest in Processes, Algorithms, Data Structures, and Design Patterns.
– Experience in designing gRPC/RESTful microservices using
– Multi-domain experience – Telecom Domain (Optics), Storage Domain (Virtualization), Social Media Analytics and Corporate Travel.
– Experienced in large scale data engineering with knowledge in steaming engines (Kafka) and search engine databases (Elasticsearch)
– Strong knowledge in Requirements gathering, Security Assessment, Estimation, and Resource planning.
– Member of the technical recruitment team at TCS, DELL EMC and DEEM Inc (current).
Work Experience
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Golang and DevOps evangelist.
- • Member of the architecture committee.
- • Working on the design and development of state-of-the-art niche search engine for hotel content.
- • An active member in formulating the process and setting the development guidelines for the team.
- • Part of the technical recruitment team and part of technical hiring process.
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Visiting Researcher(pro bono) focusing on Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analytics under the guideship of Prof. Khurshid Ahmad.
Research Activities:
• Intelligent Text Summarization – Artificially Intelligent Key Term Extraction, Collocations and Text Summarization of Domain Specifics Texts in English
• Use of Social Media Data Streams of Emergency Management (Ex. Floods, COVID-19)
• Effective communication using simple English – Normalized Readability Assessment of English Language texts
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Member of the Architecture Team for FÍOSÍN Emergency Management Suite.
- • Research work in the field of Natural Language Processing, and Social Media Analytics.
- • Actively participate in thedesignand development of Social Media Analytics Platform for Emergency Management.
- • Ensure that the processes are followed and actively suggest improvements.
- • Peer review of application code written by other developers.
- • Induction and knowledge transfer to new members joining the team.
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Design, own and ensure delivery of Architecture Working Products (Architecture Document Records).
- • SME (subject matter expert) in the area of DevOps, Microservices and Web Applications (ReST).
- • Participate in Nexus meetings representing the teams you are responsible for.
- • Ensure cross-geography synchronization among dependent teams.
- • Keeping in mind the technical debt and desired enhancements, so that new work can move the needle in a positive direction.
- • Participate in Architecture review meetings and Architect’s working meetings.
- • Development, Documentation, Stub Design and Code Review.
- • Groom team members in the required skills and help as and when required.
- • Member of the technical recruitment team.
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Manage project activities and provide technical guidance to the teams.
- • Requirement analysis, feasibility analysis, estimation and solution designing.
- • Customer Management with regards to operational aspects of the project such as solution/service delivery, process design.
- • Point of Escalation for resolution of technical matters.
- • Ensuring the quality of requirement analysis, design, development, and solutions being delivered.
- • Solution architecture of medium scale enterprise projects.
- • Grooming, identifying and assigning roles to team members.
Roles and Responsibillities:
- • Design and develop applications in the field of Search Engine Optimization, Content Engineering and Web Hosting.
- • Participate in high-level design discussions with cross-geography teams.
- • Verify working, validate functionality and ensure the quality of the applications developed.
- • Peer Review Code and suggest improvements.
- • Actively contribute to the product roadmap by suggesting improvements and putting forward new ideas.
Education
Grade: 1:1 (Distinction)
Dissertation: Intelligent Summarization: Leveraging Cohesion in Text
Core Modules: Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Scalable Computing, Security and Privacy, Distributed Computing, Advanced Software Engineering
Grade: 1:1 (Graduated with a First-Class and Distinction. Overall CGPA: 8.52/10)
Dissertation:Failure Prediction And Solutioning For Servers And Disks Using Big Data Technologies
Core Modules:Software Engineering, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Computer Networks, Cloud Computing
Grade: 89.75%
Core Subjects: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Chemistry
Technical Skills
Technologies/Domains
Programming Languages
Operating Systems
Tools
Datastores
Cloud Platforms
Scripting
Achievements
• Winning Member of the Deem Global Hackathon (2021).
• Recognised as Github Artic Code Vault Contributor for contributions to open-source projects (2020).
• Led a team of 12 at DELL EMC as Architecture Delegate taking care of Design, Review, andDelivery and successfully delivered two major projects bringing in savings of ~ $3 Million(2018).
• Two-time DELL EMC Bronze Award Winner(2017 & 2018).
• Business English Communication -Higher certified by Cambridge English Assessment.
• Nation Wide Winner (Mentor)under the Ministry of External Affairs in Smart India Hackathon (2017).
• Awarded the Technical Excellence Award by Tata Consultancy Services(2016).
• Led a team of 10 people at Tata Consultancy Services mentoring them, planning the day to day work and ensuring on-time delivery winning revenue of ~$1.7 Million(2016).
• Awarded Star Performer of the Year by Tata Consultancy Services (2015 & 2016).
Research Activities
• Honorary Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland working on Natural Language Processing (Text Summarization) and Emergency Management using Social Media (2019,2020)
• On-going research on ‘Intelligent Summarization: Leveraging Cohesion in Text’, ‘Impact of Noise on Machine Learning Algorithms’ and ‘Impact of Data Pruning on Machine Learning Algorithm Performance’ (2018, 2019).
• Research and Development Subject Matter Expert at FÍOSÍN, Trinity College Dublin working on Social Media Analytics for Emergency Management in the pre-commercialization phase (2019).
• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at DELL EMC (VPlex) Architect’s Teamworking on numerous Research and Development Projects (2017-2018).
• Research Assistant at the Tata Consultancy Services Innovations Lab and worked on Legacy Network Virtualization for OpenStack Based Cloud (2015-2016).
• Co-Author of the Cloud Security Journal publication titled ‘A Secured Proof of Ownership and Enhanced Deduplication Scheme for Cloud Storage’ and published in Asian Journal of Information Technology(2016).
• Participated as an Intern in the research work of the paper titled ‘A pragmatic approach to predicting hardware failures in storage systems using MPP database and big data technologies’ and published in IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC)(2014).