Adithya N j
Chennai
Summary
Skilled Senior Software Engineer with over nine years of demonstrated experience in designing and building scalable services and solutions, with four years working for an AI / ML SAAS product-based company. Experienced in working closely with stakeholders to own and build product features in a technical development aspect that upholds system reliability, scalability, and maintainability. Holds a proven track record in enhancing system's technical performance, while contributing to a common service. Passionate about learning upcoming technologies and solving new problems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Solution Consultant
Sahaj
Chennai
01.2023 - Current
- Currently working on a proof of concept (PoC) to convert an existing planning tool into a chat-based planner, leveraging AI and LLM capabilities with LangGraph, LangFuse, and the FastAPI framework to build an agentic workflow for intelligent conversational task automation.
- Led the migration from on-premise hosting to AWS Cloud, provisioning infrastructure with Terraform, ensuring GDPR compliance and scalability; completed delivery ahead of schedule using AI-assisted tooling (Copilot).
- Designed and configured the system to scale efficiently for 1000+ requests per minute across API servers, background job workers, and the database layer.
- Optimized dependency management on EMR by introducing a library packaging mechanism, cutting Spark job startup time from an hour to minutes.
Senior Software Engineer
Freshworks
Chennai
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Implemented data reports for a microservice utilizing historical data, leveraging Snowflake for storage and analytics.
- Optimized database MySQL migration by replacing writing and execution of custom simple PL/SQL script.
- Dealt with several arising issues promptly to ensure all projects remained within service-level agreements (SLA).
- Owned the enhancement of a key feature within the Alerts & Incident Management System; leading to a decreased average turnaround time for incident resolution.
Senior Software Engineer
Mad Street Den Technologies
Chennai
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Replaced RDBMS with an elastic search tool; increasing faceted search functionality performance from two seconds to 200ms.
- Led a team of five in the revamping and migration of a notable application framework from Node.js to Python, while fixing overarching performance and scalability issues.
- Contributed to engineering and maintaining the infrastructure of a data prediction microservice that leveraged neural networks and vector similarity search in DynamoDB for image-based predictions.
- Deployed microservices to production, while ensuring high availability and SLA by autoscaling and monitoring.
Software Engineer
Mad Street Den Technologies
Chennai
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Enhanced organisational data infrastructure by leveraging AWS storage, databases, and technologies, such as S3, RDS, ElasticSearch, Elasticache, Lambda, and Elastic Transcoder.
- Reduced query processing time from over two seconds to 300ms by resolving PostgreSQL performance issues.
- Chosen to own the tagging of SaaS development within the first six months of assuming the role.
Senior Full Stack Developer
XRLabs
Chennai
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Created numerous effective and understandable API interfaces to MVPS for investment pitches.
- Improved development scalability by writing and building units tests from conception for a microservice.
- Developed a web interface on WebRTC to drive video streaming between HoloLens and web applications.
Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer
HasoTechnology
Madurai
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Built, delivered, and maintained a variety of small-scale web applications for over ten clients.
- Grew the client base significantly through consistent product quality and effective customer service.
- Initiated a variety of company-critical engineering practices upon inception, including SDLC, GIT, and SCRUM.
- Trained and mentored seven new colleagues on web development; providing appropriate guidance where required.
Education
BE - Computer Science and Engineering
KLN College of Engineering and Technology
01.2016
Skills
- AWS (Ec2, ECS, ALB, ELB, Elastic Cache, S3, SNS, Lambda, Elastic Video Transcoder)
- Docker
- K9
- Airflow
- Python
- Django
- Flask
- Ruby on Rails
- Java
- Spring boot
- Nodejs
- Express
- JavaScript
- Reactjs
- SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Elastic Search
- MongoDB
- RedShift
- DynamoDb
- Code Review
- CI/CD
- Agile / Scrum
Personal Information
Title: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Awards
- Second Place at StockRoom, 2018, Built a platform to connect local retailers with local buyers.
- First Place at MadStreetDen Hackathon, 2015, Built an application for a Virtual Dressing Room.
- Second Place at College of Engineering Hackathon, 2015, Developed a dynamic UI for an e-commerce site.
Timeline
Solution Consultant
Sahaj
01.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Freshworks
01.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Mad Street Den Technologies
01.2019 - 01.2021
Software Engineer
Mad Street Den Technologies
01.2018 - 01.2019
Senior Full Stack Developer
XRLabs
01.2017 - 01.2018
Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer
HasoTechnology
01.2015 - 01.2017
BE - Computer Science and Engineering
KLN College of Engineering and Technology