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MANIKANDAN GANESAN

Senior Principal Engineer
SMYRNA

Summary

Seasoned Senior Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience in backend development. Adept at designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems that support mission-critical applications.

Proficient in cloud computing, I have a strong track record of architecting resilient solutions tailored to business objectives. Expertise includes optimizing microservices, managing complex databases, and implementing best practices for system efficiency and reliability.

Playing a key role in critical customer support, leveraging my in-depth application knowledge in proprietary algorithms to quickly diagnose and resolve issues. Strong ability to troubleshoot complex technical challenges efficiently ensures minimal downtime and enhances customer satisfaction.

A strong collaborator, I work closely with cross-functional teams to translate technical requirements into robust solutions. Passionate about continuous learning and staying ahead of industry trends, I thrive in solving complex engineering challenges and driving innovation. Committed to delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure backend solutions that enhance business performance and customer experience.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Principal Engineer

SysCloud, Inc
09.2023 - Current
  • Mentored junior engineers, fostering professional growth and contributing to a highly skilled engineering team.
  • Spearheaded research initiatives, keeping the organization at the forefront of industry trends and technological advancements.
  • Drove cost savings initiatives by identifying areas for improvement and implementing strategic changes in material sourcing and manufacturing processes.
  • Enhanced product quality by conducting thorough testing protocols and implementing process improvements.
  • Designed scalable architectures that accommodated business growth while maintaining optimal system performance levels.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies for potential adoption within company operations; recommended suitable options based on analysis of organizational goals.

Principal Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2018 - 08.2023


  • Insist and practice developers to follow Aspect Oriented Programming(AOP), includes logging, security, caching and separation of concerns to achieve modularity.
  • Mentor and manage a 8 members team. Coordinate between other teams and ensure the delivery of features in a product with high quality.
  • Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Product workflow training will be conducted for every new engineer joining in the company. Identify their skill set, train and place him/her in appropriate modules in a project.

Lead Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2017 - 08.2018
  • Responsible for migrating the legacy application from a monolithic to microservice architecture.
  • I was responsible for designing and developing highly reusable Components for the product.
  • Developed a workflow framework with NodeJs, to make code reusable and more abstract. Published it as a library. utilized by other parts of microservices.
  • Part of migration of application from legacy server deployments into modern techniques with one-click deployment by creating Docker builds, GIT and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
  • Responsible for implementing automation workflows for AWS deployments and infrastructure cost reduction.
  • Ensure high availability of the services, monitoring the infrastructure metrics.
  • Get involved in code reviews. Ensure following best practices and validate coding algorithms to improve efficiency.

Senior Software Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2015 - 08.2017
  • Completely take over the "DLP & compliance" application.
  • Worked closely with the sales team. Collect inputs from customers, going through an iterative development process by introducing new features in the application. Good exposure in emergency handling of customer issues.
  • Integrate compliance laws into policies in our application Ex: PCI, FERPA, HIPAA, Life Threat, Cyberbullying, Objectionable Contents etc...
  • Achieved auto scaling, In every part of the application.
  • Introduced environment isolation using Docker containers, implemented with AWS ECS EC2 and Fargate. Which helps the whole organization us to move towards serverless architecture.
  • Monitoring the patterns after deployment and fine tuning the scaling policies of each service running in AWS Cloud.

Software Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
06.2013 - 08.2015
  • Started my career with a developer support. Resolving customer tickets by working with senior engineers.
  • Co-ordinate with sales team, get requirements for product changes according to customer inputs
  • Participated in design and implementation of back-end features using PHP & MSSQL DB.
  • Started the design and development of "Security DLP and compliance" application from scratch.
  • Designing the database tables, Queries with senior engineers, writing stored procedures for retrieval of data. And do enhancements by making changes in indexes, triggers and Jobs.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Annamalai University
Chidambaram
06.2007 - 03.2011

12th Standard - Computer Science

P.A.Vidhya Bhavan Higher Secondary School
Karur
06.2006 - 03.2007

Skills

Distributed System

PHP

NodeJS

AWS

MSSQL

Linux

Dockers

Postgresql

DataStructures

Design Patterns

Microservices

Team mentoring

System architecture

GCP

Timeline

Senior Principal Engineer

SysCloud, Inc
09.2023 - Current

Principal Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2018 - 08.2023

Lead Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2017 - 08.2018

Senior Software Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
08.2015 - 08.2017

Software Engineer

Syscloud Technologies
06.2013 - 08.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Annamalai University
06.2007 - 03.2011

12th Standard - Computer Science

P.A.Vidhya Bhavan Higher Secondary School
06.2006 - 03.2007
MANIKANDAN GANESANSenior Principal Engineer