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Arun Swaminathan

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States10 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI-driven advertising optimization.
  • Proven track record in SD-WAN solutions.
  • Successful startup co-founder with impactful projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Networking expert with a strong focus on software development and optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

AiSoftware DevelopmentAd PerformanceNetworkingCloud ComputingWeb DevelopmentFinance

Other Skills

AI agent-based workflowsadvertising targetingoptimizationsmart pixel trackingevents managementattributionreportingSD-WANconfiguration managementremote diagnosticsdistributed systemsWebSocketstate managementcloud-based systemsrouting algorithms

About

Currently working at Amazon Ad performance and optimisation team. Have a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Previous roles - VMware (Velocloud) as a Senior Software Developer developing solutions in the space of SD-WAN. Senior software engineer at the D.E Shaw Group in the Options Trading Team. Also co-founded 2 startups, both reaching success in their respective domains.

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Developing AI agent-based workflows for advertising targeting and optimization. Focused on implementing autonomous systems that enhance campaign targeting efficiency and reduce manual processes.
AI agent-based workflowsadvertising targetingoptimizationAISoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jul 2022Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Part of Amazon Ads Performance and Optimisation Team
  • I lead and contribute to intricate projects focused on building and optimizing systems focused on ad performance for non endemic advertisers. Spearheaded projects which include smart pixel tracking, events management, attribution and reporting.
ad performancesmart pixel trackingevents managementattributionreportingAd Performance+1

Vmware

2 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Feb 2020Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Part of Velocloud SD-WAN (Software Defined Wireless Area Network) team. My primary responsibilities involved solving problems relate to scale and distributed systems in the field of software defined networking. I worked on various features in this product, including configuration management, remote diagnostics etc.
  • I developed a 2-way communication channel between the Orchestrator and the edge router, with a websocket based state management system. I also contributed to the development of a cloud-based orchestrator system that defines the invocation and orchestration of routing and networking algorithms according to dynamic workloads, so that our clients can achieve optimal performance of their enterprise network.
SD-WANconfiguration managementremote diagnosticsdistributed systemsNetworkingSoftware Development

R&D Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Palo Alto, California

  • Bi-directional communication infrastructure: Developed a 2-way communication protocol between the Velocloud SD-WAN Orchestrator and the edge routers using a WebSocket/Redis pipeline. (Python/JavaScript/Lua).
  • Fault Tolerance: Designed a producer-consumer architecture with high availability & fault tolerance to handle ~10k clients.
WebSocketRedisPythonJavaScriptLuaNetworking

The research foundation for suny

Research Assistant

Dec 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr

  • Involved in the development of a platform to treat people with chronic illnesses by involving the stakeholders in their treatment.
  • The platform is built using NodeJS, Azure, and MongoDB.
  • My role entails complete revamp of the platform using the ReactJS framework, improving code architecture for better change management, and migration from Datica to Azure.
NodeJSAzureMongoDBReactJSWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Stony brook university

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Fall 2019: TA for CSE 306: Operating Systems under Prof. Eugene Stark
  • Fall 2018: TA for CSE 101: Introduction to Computers and IT under Prof. Michael Tashbook

D. e. shaw india private limited

Senior Member Technical

Jul 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked as a Senior software developer in the Options derivative team (Team Size 3).
  • Handled all technology related tasks for the team which involves
  • real-time analytics, and software modeling of all financial instruments traded on
  • exchanges around the world.
  • Built a modular centralized platform individually to display Intraday Tasks to
  • traders using a publisher-subscriber architecture, along with extensive caching
  • using HDF5.
  • Redesigned software architectures and performed significant optimizations to
  • existing legacy codebases to bring about more than 50% performance
  • improvements in the current processes.
  • Used Python for development and a proprietary wrapper on Pandas and Numpy
  • called Datab, following best practices such as test-driven development. Got
  • promoted in 1.5 years for excellent performance.
  • Actively assisted in migration from Python2 to Python3
  • Involved in recruitment and mentored interns in interesting projects ranging from core financial processes to Machine learning related projects
real-time analyticssoftware modelingPythonHDF5FinanceSoftware Development

Barclays technology centre india

Software Engineering Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked in the UK Retail Banking Division of the Barclays Technology Centre India.
  • Made improvements to the Internet banking facility by enabling users to compute their savings.
  • Also fixed a lot of bugs in the existing codebase and helped make the software more performant.
  • Technologies used - Angular-Spring framework, JSP-struts framework.
AngularSpringJSPstrutsWeb Development

Refocus technologies

Developer

Nov 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

  • I worked here as a backend developer (PHP) for all the new products which were being developed.
  • Also integrated the backend with the mobile applications by creating a REST interface.
  • Was also involved in many idea brainstorming sessions, which resulted in a couple of award-winning apps for blackberry particularly - Sketchbook, Convertly, Walls, and Bolt
PHPREST interfaceWeb Development

Klassy

Cofounder

Nov 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

  • A Hyperlocal search for lifestyle-related products.
  • Responsible for the entire technical front from creating the backend to developing the various mobile apps required for the project.
  • Also developed some cool features for internal operations like custom camera implementations, image compression and automatic syncing between multiple apps.
backend developmentmobile applicationsWeb Development

Education

Stony Brook University

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2019

COEP Technological University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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