Kirupakaran Harikrishnan

Senior Software Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India11 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 10 years of software engineering experience.
Expert in building scalable and reliable software solutions.
Strong background in AI-powered product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a focus on scalable software solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsMachine LearningData AnalysisJavascriptNode.jsReliability EngineeringJava Spring BootJavaD3.js

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ElasticsearchPythonSecurityAngularMySQLREST APIsCC++SQLCore JavaEclipseCSSLinuxWindows

About

Senior Software Engineer with a strong passion for building impactful products that solve real-world problems. I bring 10+ years of experience designing and developing scalable, reliable, and user-focused software across domains like enterprise software, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered support systems. I thrive in collaborative environments where engineers, designers, and product managers come together to iterate quickly and deliver value to users. I’m particularly drawn to product development roles where I can work end-to-end—from ideation to implementation - continuously improving the product through data-driven experimentation, user feedback, and a deep understanding of the customer journey.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Atlassian

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · India · Remote

Building a search platform to help customers find help faster and power human and AI agents to better support customers’ needs.
Ran several experiments to improve customer experiences and reduce friction while interacting with AI agents and worked with product and data science teams to measure the impact of the experiments and iterate on them. Achieved ~$10M in cost savings as a result of those experiments.
Leading efforts to integrate AI agents to support workflows for faster support resolutions for customers and reduce support ticket volume.
Delivered new search experience to Atlassian support knowledge portal that led to increased customer usage (>2x increase in traffic) by improving search relevance.
Optimized search service to improve latency and reduce operational costs.
Leading team retros to identify and address engineering team pains and improve overall developer productivity, happiness and team velocity by working with various stakeholders to improve processes.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ElasticsearchJavaPythonData AnalysisMachine Learning+1

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · 10 mos

Github

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

As a developer for npm registry
Led and Delivered features like fine-grained access tokens in npm registry that helps javascript developers secure their software software supply-chain
Made npm infrastructure more reliable and easy to maintain by moving to managed solutions
Led several features like email 2fa for npm, improved invitation flow for new npm users, securely exposed npm apis that helps third-party developers build on top of npm
Improved the reliability of npm registry in several ways:
Helped make npm publishes more reliable and improved reliability metrics from 99->99.99%
As a directly responsible lead for npm on-call, I ensured npm registry is running without issues and reduced downtime and mitigated any on-going issues and ensured npm is available for 99.99% of the time
Addressed several security issues and bounties to make npm more secure
Mentored several of my teammates and interns for their success and for the success of my team and npm

JavaScriptNode.jsSecurityReliability Engineering

Llamasoft, inc.

Product Developer

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

Part of the product development team building a platform for data scientists to quickly develop and deliver their models to business users as enterprise applications.

Brimma tech inc.

Engineering partner

Jan 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

Partner to the company taking responsibility and ownership in everything we do, from product ideation to delivery. Built several products and services related to mortgage industry following agile best practices, integrating CI/CD pipelines, automated unit & integration tests, and handling scalability.
Technologies - Nodejs, Angular, java spring boot
Lead the development of a product designed to replace a legacy manual business process, that integrates with multiple services across organizations and scales to handle thousands of requests everyday using java, spring boot, mysql, angular
Implemented backend for a product that converts user statements to rules for Drools engine
Translated wireframes and designs to web pages using angular, ionic, javascript, jquery
Build backend for several websites and web services using node, expressjs, google cloud services
Involved in the development of a digital assistant and did some research on sentiment and emotion analysis using Machine learning

Node.jsAngularJava Spring BootMySQL

Zoho corporation

2 roles

Full stack web developer

Jun 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

Part of a team that develops one of the most widely used helpdesk & asset management software where I designed features from the data model to the end result.
Built a platform incorporating a dashboard to visualize Business/IT services as a dependency graph using D3.js that will help organizations to quickly react to incidents and requests and plan changes with Java as backend and integrate other products to automate IT service management
Collaborated with a team that developed a framework to automate building REST APIs using configurations ensuring quick development of applications
Improved the security of the application by finding and fixing web application vulnerabilities
Fixed several performance issues on the application by working with several customers by analysing JVM error dumps and thread data

JavaD3.jsREST APIs