Tarun S

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven record in building high-performing teams.
  • Delivered scalable platforms with significant cost savings.
  • Expertise in data-driven innovation and architectural excellence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Data Engineering and Distributed Systems expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringDistributed SystemsSystem Design

Other Skills

AirflowAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaArduinoCC++CSSDatabricksDropwizardElasticSearchExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)HTMLHTML/CSSJava

About

Philomath Software Engineering Leader with a dynamic entrepreneurial mindset and a proven record of building high-performing teams, delivering scalable platforms, and driving data-driven innovation. I specialize in architectural excellence, distributed systems, and cloud optimization, with a strong focus on balancing technology with business impact. I thrive at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and technology: defining strategy, scaling teams, and delivering measurable outcomes. My passion lies in leading transformative projects, fostering a culture of excellence, and solving complex, high-impact challenges. Core Expertise: Distributed Systems · Data Engineering & MLOps · System & Software Design · Cloud Cost Optimization · Data Structures & Algorithms · I’m committed to leveraging my technical expertise and leadership acumen to inspire teams, drive innovation at scale, and deliver solutions that accelerate organizational growth.

Experience

9 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Bureau

Engineering Leader

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Head of Data & MLOps | Leading Engineering for Alternative Data & No-Code Orchestration.
  • https://www.bureau.id/

Commerceiq

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Mar 2024Dec 2024 · 9 mos · Hybrid

  • Spearheaded the Data Platform team of E-Commerce Sales Management (ESM) & Omni Command Center (OCC) products.
  • Delivered a cost-saving milestone by leading the migration from Snowflake to Databricks, reducing ETL and AWS costs by over 60% for ESM components.
  • Designed & Architected robust data models and ingestion frameworks, ETL pipelines, supporting global retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target.
  • Scaled the team from 4 to 8 engineers while cultivating a culture of innovation and high performance by strategizing team OKRs and individual growth plans aligned with organizational goals.
Distributed SystemsData EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)DatabricksSystem DesignTeam Management+5

Lead Software Engineer (Manager)

Promoted

Mar 2023Feb 2024 · 11 mos · Hybrid

  • Managed multiple engineering pods with direct reportees. Achieved < 1% SLA breaches across ESM data refreshes: Data Latency, Data Correctness, Data Availability etc
  • Designed auto-healing systems and lean refresh mechanisms, significantly enhancing Amazon-powered report stability.
  • Improved data ingestion speed by 40% with reusable Java libraries, reducing pipeline execution time from 40 to < 25 minutes.
  • Led Amazon Copilot's expansion to new marketplaces like Australia, increasing product stickiness and driving ARR growth.
Distributed SystemsData EngineeringAmazon Web Services (AWS)SnowflakeDatabricksExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)+5

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2021Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hybrid

  • Designed, Developed and Led the Amazon Crawl to SP-API migration, contributing to $50M ARR growth in 2022.
  • Built scalable services like AVC-Service and Config-driven Merger-Service, enabling the ingestion of 12,500+ data points.
  • Designed, Developed and Orchestrated new ingestion model for Amazon Marketing Cloud data with 90% code coverage.
  • Standardized engineering practices focused on SOLID, KISS, and DRY principles, promoting sustainable development.
  • Enhanced CI/CD pipelines with integration testing frameworks, achieving 100% coverage.
Distributed SystemsData EngineeringSystem DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)Java+3

Upgrad

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer I

Promoted

Jun 2021Oct 2021 · 4 mos · Remote

  • Lead the team and introduced LSQ (LeadSquared:CRM) integration for all ADS applications, syncs all the essentials attributes of applications for a given user to LSQ from application‐service.
  • ADS: Application Data Service – Developed a new internal product to dynamically create, edit and publish application form for a given program page. Took complete ownership of form‐service with focus on code quality, strictly followed major Software Design and SOLID principles.
  • Refactored form‐service code quality tech debts and improved API performances with introducing caching on static data using redis and enhancing aggregation pipeline queries for mongoRepository.
  • Redesigned Legacy Combo Program Launch: Completely revamped combo program mappings and launching procedures through APL: Automated Program Launcher
Distributed SystemsSystem DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaSpring BootDropwizard+4

Software Engineer II

Apr 2020May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Built form‐service from scratch with version control and rule engine design with 90% test coverage. Reduced the manual effort of creating an application page and from 4‐7 days to less than 20 minutes.
  • Solely designed (LLD, HLD) and developed rules engine, part of form‐service and application‐service, which shortlists the learner based on the rule results for a given application.
  • APL: Automated Program Launcher – Developed a new internal product to entirely automate all the program launches of upGrad. Reduced the manual effort of launching a program from 1 week to less than 1 hour.
  • Owned growth part of upGrad: Central‐Service, developed multiple APIs related to Program, Application etc. Location detection of user on signUp and drop‐lead (program‐interest), which was major feature for upGrad, going international.
Distributed SystemsSystem DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaJavaSpring Boot+4

Broadcom inc.

2 roles

R&D Engineer Software 2

Jul 2019Apr 2020 · 9 mos · On-site

  • Optimized and improved the performance of data flow between different micro‐service components of DOI: Digital Operational Intelligence by > 30%.
  • Designed, developed, tested and owned significant scalable features for monitoring Cloud Technologies like Azure, VMware, AWS and Nutanix through DX‐IM: Digital Experience in Infrastructure Management.
  • Avoided costly investments on third party monitoring tools by migrating to in-house monitoring features.
Distributed SystemsSystem DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)JavaSpring BootDropwizard+3

R&D Engineer Software 1

Dec 2018Jun 2019 · 6 mos · On-site

  • • Redesigned the architecture of data processing in DX‐IM, which helped in achieving required scalability and boosted the processing speed by over 40%.
Distributed SystemsSystem DesignJavaSpring FrameworkSQL

Ca technologies

Software Engineer

Oct 2017Nov 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • • Owned end to end High Scale Probes of DX‐IM, rolled out significant features by extensively following TDD and Agile methodologies.
Distributed SystemsJavaSpring FrameworkSQL

Stealth startup

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017Oct 2017 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Contributed to an early stage start‐up in Full Stack Design and Development.
  • Developed and shipped REST APIs, Web Applications and Schedulers from scratch.
Ruby on RailsPythonMySQLPostgreSQLHTML/CSS

Nokia

R&D Engineer

Jul 2016Jan 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Software Development in C++ for HLR: Home Location Register, a component of GSM: Global System for Mobile.
  • Optimized, enhanced and delivered TPD – Technical Project Data of HLR which serves the customer directly.
  • Among the Top 15 Coders in Nokia Code‐Rally 2016 conducted on HackerEarth platform.
CC++XMLShell Scripting

Education

PES University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Anmol Science Pre-University College

12th

Jan 2010Jan 2012

NK DAV Public School

10th — Secondary Education

Jan 2005Jan 2010

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