About

Arulanandan P is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 14 years of experience in software development, system design, multi-threading, distributed systems, security, privacy, scalability, performance, and memory analysis and improvement. He possesses a good understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, performance improvement, and optimization. Arulanandan has worked on very large software products with codebases of several million lines, and he has a good aptitude for problem-solving and analytical abilities. He is a quick learner and an excellent team player with exceptional communication skills. Arulanandan also has experience mentoring junior team members. Arulanandan is proficient in programming languages such as C, C++11/14, C#, Python Perl, and Java. He has worked with various operating systems, including Android, GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX, and Windows. Arulanandan has expertise in scripting languages such as Shell (csh, tcsh) and Makefiles, and he has experience with web technologies such as PHP and HTML. He has worked with databases such as MySQL and MS SQL and libraries such as STL, BOOST, and Intel Thread Building blocks. Arulanandan also has experience with machine learning tools such as Scikit and Pandas (dataframes). Arulanandan has worked with various tools, including Binutils (nm, objcopy, ld, etc.), sed, awk, compilers (gcc, g++, xlC, Sun cc), Valgrind, Purify, and debuggers such as gdb, dbx, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Sun Studio profiler. He is proficient in version control systems such as Perforce, Git, and SVN. Arulanandan is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he applies his expertise in software engineering, SQL, Scikit, ML, Pandas, PHP, MySQL, web development, Python, C++, Java, and Android. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems and as a Sr R&D Engineer II at Synopsys. Arulanandan holds a 5-year integrated M.Sc. in Software Engineering from PSG College of Technology, where he graduated in 2008. He also attended DAV BHEL School.