About

Arun Raghavendar is a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a proven track record in software development, specializing in Web technologies, database, and performance tuning of web applications. With over 17 years of relevant experience, Arun has a talent for designing, developing, and deploying highly scalable applications on both Linux and Windows platforms. Currently working as a Software Development Engineer III at Amazon, Arun has previously held positions at Yahoo and Intel India, where he was recognized for his award-winning performance. Arun is a gold medalist and best outgoing student in college, demonstrating his dedication to his work and his passion for software development. Arun's specialties include developing very high scale applications, performance tuning of web applications, problem-solving, and algorithms. He has a wealth of experience in capacity planning, stabilizing, and fine-tuning applications to make them easier on CPU, memory, and other resources. Arun has also worked on converting products to support all browsers on all platforms, irrespective of the scripting ability of the browser, using the progressive enhancement method. At Yahoo, Arun worked on the development of a rewritten version of Yahoo! Mail Classic, which required him to participate in designing the application as per MVC and to support all types of future changes required. He developed various tools for the Mail deployment to make deployment seamlessly easier and participated in capacity planning for Yahoo! Mail Classic before the release. Arun was also responsible for stabilizing and fine-tuning the application to make it easier on CPU, memory, and other resources. He worked on internationalizing the application to support multiple languages and worked in various aspects of upgrading the Yahoo! Mail Classic to a Web 2.0 application. Arun's technical skills include software engineering and web technologies. He is a highly skilled problem solver with an in-depth understanding of algorithms. Arun is an expert in performance tuning of web applications and has experience working with various tools to optimize performance, including YSlow Score, optimizing the download size, using Keep-Alive effectively, and including Ads with less impact on performance. Overall, Arun is a highly talented and accomplished Senior Staff Engineer with a wealth of experience in software development, specializing in Web technologies, database, and performance tuning of web applications. Arun's expertise in designing, developing, and deploying highly scalable applications makes him a valuable asset to any organization.