Sidharthan Rajendran — Software Engineer

🚀 About Me: A seasoned Software Professional boasting over 12 years of experience, I specialize in scaling enterprise applications, managing transaction risks, and currently focusing on Language Learning Models (LLMs) using Hugging Face's open-source tools. 🌐 Professional Journey: Current Focus: Deeply engaged in LLMs development, contributing significantly to AI and language processing technology with a focus on Python, PyTorch, and the Transformers library. Past Experience: Key member of the risk management team at PayPal, where I developed robust solutions for transaction risk mitigation. Latest Role: Enhancing user experience and functionalities for the Microsoft Outlook web app. 🛠 Technical Proficiency: Expert in full-stack development, including Java [Spring, Spring Boot], Node.js [Mongoose, Express], and Python with a strong focus on PyTorch and the Transformers library. Advanced skills in React (Expert level) and Angular (Intermediate level). Extensive experience with cloud services such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Managed data clusters with over 3 billion documents and processed 1 million records per minute. Certified MongoDB DBA and Java Developer. 🏆 Achievements: Led a team of 8, earning the Game Changer award for both individual and team performance. Optimized an Elasticsearch cluster, achieving a significant cost reduction of $10,000 monthly. Creator and Maintainer of React-popout-V2, an open-source NPM package. Over 5K reputation on StackOverflow, mainly contributing to the Elasticsearch tag. 🎖️ Awards: Most Valuable Player at Payoda. Game Changer for outstanding performance at Mr. Cooper. SPOT Award at PayPal. 📚 Passion for Knowledge Sharing: Active in training and onboarding talent at various start-ups and companies like TrusTrace, CapGemini, Epsilon, etc. 📧 Connect with Me: For Technical Consulting, Application Building, Training, and Onboarding, feel free to reach out at sidharthancrt@gmail.com.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in Fintech and EdTech.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 12 yrs 3 mos

Skills

React.js
Full-stack Development
Kafka
Elk Stack

Career Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in software development.
Expert in full-stack development and LLMs.
Led a team to optimize Elasticsearch, saving $10,000 monthly.

Work Experience

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer (3 yrs 8 mos)

Sanrove

Co-Founder (4 yrs)

PayPal

Member Of Technical Staff (10 mos)

Software Engineer - 3 (Full Stack) (2 yrs 4 mos)

Gulf Consulting

Subject Matter Expert - ELK Stack (1 yr 3 mos)

upGrad

Coach (5 yrs 8 mos)

Nationstar Mortgage

Full Stack Developer (2 yrs 6 mos)

Tracxn

Senior Software Engineer (7 mos)

Payoda Technologies

Software Engineer II (2 yrs 3 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Diploma at Nachimuthu Polytechnic College

Sidharthan Rajendran

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of experience in software development.
Expert in full-stack development and LLMs.
Led a team to optimize Elasticsearch, saving $10,000 monthly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in Fintech and EdTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

React.jsFull-stack DevelopmentKafkaElk Stack

Other Skills

AJAXAdvanced CSSAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentCSSData StructuresElastic Stack (ELK)ElasticSearchHTMLHibernateJ2EE Application DevelopmentJSONJUnit

About

Experience

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Sanrove

Co-Founder

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

React.jsWeb ApplicationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaFull-Stack Development

Paypal

2 roles

Member Of Technical Staff

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

Software Engineer - 3 (Full Stack)

Mar 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Building a Dispute management platform using Java, Spring, React js, Oracle which increased the customer service agent efficiency to 200%
Integration with the Product team for requirement gathering and breaking it into Manageable epics and tasks which improves the team efficiency by 30%.
Designing high-level design [HLD] and Low-level design [LLD] for systems.
Participating in Code reviewing for pears which improves the code quality at least by 50%.
Code optimization for performance improvement and latency reduction.

Gulf consulting

Subject Matter Expert - ELK Stack

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Consulting as a subject matter expert for ELK stack, MongoDB, Kafka, and Full-stack development.

Upgrad

Coach

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Coaching and SME for following tech stack-
Creating content on React JS which helps as Capstone project which make sure , students understood the concepts 100%.
Took 6 hours Kafka Crash course over 90 students batch.
#Kafka

Nationstar mortgage

Full Stack Developer

Sep 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

Built a portal from scratch to managing the inbound leads with multiple channels which saved the company a 40% reduction of cost by removing the external product dependency.
Lead a team of 8 and be the point of contact for technology decisions.
Using distributed Microservice architecture, the system scaled very well and it was an exponential learning experience.
Took technology sessions to share the learning with other team members and encouraged the juniors to participate more in design.
Created feature to handle the external system failure and where developer/stakeholder can proactively fix the issue which improves the resiliency of application by 10%.

Tracxn

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2016 – Sep 2016 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Contributed to the Application Search where we need to enable Full-text search, Auto Suggest, Aggregation using Minimal hardware which requires maximum Optimization. Also, optimization helped reduce the cloud bill up to 30%.
Built a Clickstream analysis using ELK stack where we can track user activity in real-time. It improved the Product Analysis time efficiently by 100%.
From indexing to search optimization, it was a great learning experience altogether.

Payoda technologies

Software Engineer II

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

Java/J2EE developer and Part of the Technology team (R&D). I worked Predominantly on the Application in each part where I enable the application to do a Full-Text search which improves the search efficiency by 20%.