Arun Theivendirarajah

Seattle, WA

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What kind of job are you looking for?

I am looking for an early to mid stage startup. I want to work with really smart people who have a passion for technology and know how to get things done. I have a lot of experience building and running enterprise scale distributed systems complex networks.

Posted @ 04:08PM, August 10, 2007 by Arun Theivendirarajah | Permalink
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Work history

Amazon.com January 2006 to January 2007
Software Development Manager

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How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?

Developer Manager of the Website Efficiency team. In charge of improving the computational efficiency of the platform that generates all website content for Amazon websites. The team built and deployed request routing systems, and distributed client-side caching.
Hired two exceptional software developers in a period of four months, enabling the team to deliver crucial projects. Mentored two newly graduated software developers to help them transition from academia to become productive individual contributors delivering projects within 6 months.
Presented technical talks for Amazon at college recruiting events at University of Austin, Cornell University, and University of Waterloo. Heavily involved in getting new college graduates accustomed to their new environments.... read more
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Amazon.com August 2003 to December 2006
Software Developer

How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?

Headed a team of six software developers in the design and development of a distributed service, which allowed customers to subscribe to mailing lists of interest that were used by the business for personalized marketing. The service, receiving over five million requests per day.
Transformed real world business requirements into highly optimized relational data models.
Identified and corrected failure conditions that caused unreliability in the Automated Email platform through forensic data analysis, real-time process monitoring, and software instrumentation.
Promoted to Lead Software Developer within 18 months at Amazon.com.... read more
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Education

University of Waterloo September 1998 to April 2003
Computer Engineering

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