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Resume

My Resume

January 9,2024

last update: 2024-11-19

Resume [pdf]

Email: sayyampe at andrew.cmu.edu

linkedin.com/in/suriya-ganesh

github.com/subygan

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Dec 2024

Master of Science in Information Technology Pittsburgh, PA

Anna University, Apr 2019

Bachelor Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, Chennai, India

Relevant Coursework

  • Systems Programming

  • Data privacy

  • Differential privacy

  • Deep Learning

  • Explainable ML

  • Distributed System

Work Experience

School of Computer Science, CMU Sep 2023 – present

Part-time SDE, Computational Biology Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Contributed to Rust libraries used for computational biology emulation and drug discovery

Nimbleedge, Jan 2023 – July 2023

Senior Systems Engineer, Bangalore, India

  • Worked on nimbleedge’s federated learning (FL) platform and individually designed, built, deployed and managed their ML model sampling, training and aggregation systems.

  • Worked with ML researchers to convert cutting edge FL techniques and strategies into Deployable and maintainable applications

  • Prototyped demonstrable systems to prospective customers to showcase federated learning applications and their benefits.

  • Planned, Mentored and worked with Junior engineers and interns on deliverables and deployments.

Skyflow,Oct 2021 – Dec 2022

Software Development Engineer, Bangalore, India

  • Part of the Governance team. Working on services Securing and governing privacy-vault.

  • Worked on performance optimisations for the governance engine. Which reduced p99 response time from 150 ms to 5ms at 15K rps. Using Leveled caching and cache invalidation mechanisms

  • Worked on migration from a single tenant architecture to a multitenant architecture. With data residency in multiple AWS regions.

  • Migrated from a Arangodb based backend to Mongodb. To improve reliability and performance.

Acko General Insurance, July 2019 – Oct 2021

Software Development Engineer, Bangalore, India

  • As a member of the platforms team, built internal audit service, pdf signing service.

  • Improved developer tooling over a rust codebase, with methods like remote code compilation and cluster spawning.

  • stepped up, handling more than 150 releases over a period of 7 months coordinating across 8 different teams, besides regular development tasks, during a period of management turmoil.

  • Built the internal CICD platform to test, run and deliver test results to the stakeholders.

Technical Skills

  • Languages: Rust, Go, C++, python, javascript
  • Technologies/Frameworks: kafka, K8s, Docker, EKS, Azure, AWS

Other Activities and Achievements

HackCMU,September 2023 Winner, ACM @ CMU

  • Competed and won in the HackCMU 2023 contest. built a complete interactive orbital satellite tracker overnight.

IEEE students chapter Apr 2017 – Apr 2019 President Anna University

  • Organised the international conference for Instrumentation engineers, 2018, with international delegates from multiple Universities.