Arjun Raman

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States12 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led significant data infrastructure migrations to AWS.
Designed high-throughput notification systems at Airbnb.
Co-authored patents in workflow processing and data storage.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsWeb Services

Other Skills

AlgorithmsJavaData StructuresNoSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidMobile Game DevelopmentAlgorithm Design

About

Experienced Staff Software Engineer with a proven track record in designing and implementing high-throughput distributed systems. Adept at leading 0 to 1 initiatives that drive significant business impact. At Airbnb, I work on the infrastructure that handles every single notification sent by the company. At Amazon Web Services, I designed, built, and operated large-scale distributed systems in the financial space, managing trillions of individual records with the highest standards for accuracy and completeness.

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Oct 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Communications Platform Lead (Sep 2020 - Present)
Tech Lead for Communication Platform responsible for every notification sent from Airbnb.
Advocated for, designed, and implemented a notification framework to unify scattered notification systems, leading to the deprecation of multiple legacy systems and millions of dollars in annual cost saving.
Improved notifications throughput significantly through the new notifications engine.
Data Infrastructure (Mar 2019 - Sep 2020)
Led the migration of Airbnb's data warehouse clusters from on-premises to AWS EMR, designing and building the control plane for managing the clusters.
Designed and implemented an automated cluster recovery mechanism, reducing downtime and operational overhead.

Web ServicesDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsJavaData StructuresNoSQL

Amazon web services

2 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

Led a team in building a batch processing workflow system to run the bill computation workflow for all AWS customers.
Designed and implemented a workflow system to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks, significantly improving data processing efficiency and reliability.
Co-authored three patents related to workflow processing and data storage systems.

Software Development Engineer II

Sep 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Designed and implemented an indexing system for AWS Billing data, storing millions of bills with sub-50ms retrieval times while serving millions of requests per minute.
Proposed, planned, and executed the migration of AWS Billing's legacy MySQL databases to Aurora, resulting in significant latency improvements, cost reductions, and operational excellence.
Received an operational excellence award from AWS CEO Andy Jassy for the successful database migration effort.

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer - II

Promoted

Jun 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Worked with Amazon's subsidiary Quidsi on the fulfillment team that owned Quidsi's order processing and fulfillment strategy.

Software Development Engineer

May 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

Worked with Amazon Promotions team on a building a new promotions platform for amazon.co.jp.

Ebay inc

SDE Intern

Dec 2012 – May 2013 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on eBay’s Web Crawler team and built a crawling and extraction tool. Launched in production by the end of the internship resulting in direct annual savings of $1.5MM for eBay.