About

Ganesh Arulanantham is a self-motivated and results-focused Lead Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in building world-class engineering SaaS products in Ruby on Rails and Java. He is currently employed at Kaleidofin, where he is responsible for building core software for leading fintech. Ganesh's areas of expertise include software development life cycle (SDLC), architecting software solutions, agile project management, and mentoring. He is passionate about living, learning, and leveling up every single day and loves what he does. Prior to his current role, Ganesh worked as a Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks, where he was responsible for the technical aspects of multiple features in Product Freshchat. He also designed and built the first microservice architecture for the product and mentored junior and mid-level engineers to design a system. Agile development was core to the development cycle, and he managed bi-weekly agile sprints with the team. Ganesh improved test coverage and overall code quality by reviews and by adopting the best system design. Ganesh has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Freshworks, where he built and implemented customer churn prediction models based on customer activity. He engineered a recommendation engine for the Freshworks app-store and implemented data pipelines for various projects using Apache Spark. He also developed Freddy bot for quick retrieval of FAQ and knowledge base support, AI Ticket Deflection for Product Freshdesk, and Lead Score and customer activity analytics of CRM. Ganesh holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Advanced Manufacturing from Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur, and a Higher Secondary degree in Computer Science from D.A.V Higher Secondary School. He also holds a High School degree in Science and Maths from Loyola Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Ganesh's tech stack includes software engineering, Ruby, Java, Spring, Javascript, Spring Boot, MySQL, microservices, test, Kafka, DevOps, Spark, Docker, ML, AWS, integration, backend, Terraform, AI, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Elastic Search, Jenkins, search, Postgres, Azure, frontend, and infra. Ganesh's relevant experience is 8.52 years.