About

Karuppaiah Alagappan is a Technical Lead with over 16 years of experience in software development and management. He has expertise in Golang development, Kubernetes, AWS, and other programming languages. He has led multiple projects in an Agile environment and has experience in domain-driven design, test-driven development, and analysis, architecture, design, development, mocks, unit testing, code review, testing, and deployment. Karuppaiah has hands-on experience with local to production environment setup for microservices and has experience in docker, docker-compose, and Kubernetes. He is also familiar with gitlab, concourse, and buildKite CI/CD. He has worked with tools like Terraform, ansible, and has experience in developing new product introduction(NPI) + Catalog management. Karuppaiah has good experience with AWS, SOA, Microservice, Redis, kong, gRPC, GCP, radius-server, logging, monitoring, Prometheus, datadog, Loggly, Elastic Search with kibana, Integration of Elastic Search with golang, sentry.io. He has worked with MongoDB atlas, Postgres, MySQL, and has experience in a microservices architecture. Karuppaiah has experience in Performance, Load & Stress testing with Apache JMeter and external mobile tools. He has good knowledge of e-Commerce, Payment(Compliance + Financial instruments), logistics, Supply chain management, CRM, CMS, OMS, EPA, and Hospitality. He is proficient in tools like Code, Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Confluence, Google Apps, Unix/PL SQL, and versioning system experience in Git. He has hands-on experience in XML, JSON, YAML. Currently, Karuppaiah is working as a Technical Lead at checkbox.ai, where he is responsible for Golang Backend development and DevOps. He has optimized zip & bulk file download, reduced the time by 80%, and developed API with the migration of existing infrastructure. He has also restructured code to enable the new feature addition and designed major features end-to-end and documented them based on sprint release. Prior to this, Karuppaiah has worked as a Senior Software Engineer + Devops at Local Measure, where he worked on Microservices with Golang, broke monolith to microservice, and architected new features to expose everything as API's. He has also worked on infrastructure setup using terraform, deployment using git