About

Giridharan Shanmugavel is a highly skilled Software Engineer 2 currently working at PayPal. He has a strong background in developing scalable applications and problem-solving. Giridharan's expertise lies in Java with spring framework, React JS, Hibernate ORM, and microservices architecture. He has deep experience with relational databases and has optimized code quality by leveraging Object-Oriented programming and various design patterns like Facade pattern, adaptor pattern, etc. based on the use-case. Giridharan is experienced in containerized applications on Google Cloud Platform utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins pipelines. Giridharan has worked on several projects including a real-time analytics tool to track usage efficiency of a case management application by the payments investigators in PayPal. This project was developed using React JS, Java with spring framework, Relational database with SQL, REST API, and multi-threading concepts. The project was efficient and useful, and it won runner-up in the PayPal Hackathon. The project was further improvised and shipped to production. Giridharan has also worked at Zoho as a Member Technical Staff. He was responsible for developing and maintaining well-designed, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications using JavaScript with jQuery framework, Java, Struts 2 framework, and relational databases. He was also responsible for customer engagements, requirements gatherings, deciding the database architecture, and technology to be used. Giridharan developed and oversaw REST APIs serving more than 50k users and handling millions of queries each day. He reduced the data retrieval time by 80% from the database by leveraging time-based UUID (Universally Unique Identifiers) as a primary key and partitioning the table based on it. Giridharan has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology, and Research Academy. He has experience working with various technologies such as Spring, SQL, Microservices, Jenkins, Javascript, Neural Networks, MySQL, Kafka, CNN, CI/CD, ML, PHP, UI, and Web. With 4.78 years of relevant experience, Giridharan is a highly skilled software engineer with a strong background in developing scalable applications.