About

Sairam Sankaran is an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer with a passion for developing highly scalable distributed systems. He is dedicated to delivering impactful and quality products to solve customer problems. Sairam has developed large scale distributed systems scaling up to 0.5M clients and automated software deployment processes to reduce operational costs by 60% for customers. He is curious about emerging technologies and adopts the right language and tools to find the best solutions. Sairam has worked across various domains such as aviation, power utility, healthcare, customer data management, networking, backend infrastructure, web / mobile platforms and on-premise / cloud deployments. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Amazon, where he was the third engineer on a new AWS offering. He quickly delivered the v1 product within 2 months, focusing on user experience, stability and scalability. Sairam reduced the UI testing time from a week to 30 min by automating the manual UI testing using TestCafe and making it a part of continuous deployment. He also improved developer productivity by 10X by automating infrastructure setup. Sairam has worked for Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer III. He developed a network controller to manage Cisco devices remotely (Software Defined Networking) and worked on a revolutionary product to simplify on-boarding of network devices. Sairam has obsessively focused on customer experience and worked with cross-functional teams to simplify user experience and define the product roadmap. Sairam has a Master's Degree in Computational Science & Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS. He has completed an iOS Boot Camp from Codepath and a Senior Secondary in Computer Science from P. S. Senior Secondary School. Sairam is well-versed in technologies such as AWS, Javascript, NoSQL, ReactJS, Spring Boot, Microservices, Flask, Kubernetes, and MongoDB. He has relevant experience of 9.52 years in the field of Software Engineering. In his free time, Sairam loves to travel and indulge in photography.