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Rajagopalan Gangadharan is an experienced Software Development Engineer 1 at Amazon with a strong background in computer software. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Vellore Institute of Technology and has demonstrated expertise in Python, Javascript, C++, Adobe Creative Suite, Programming, and Mathematics. In his current role at Amazon, Rajagopalan is a part of the DMS team responsible for handling authentication, integrity, and capabilities of Amazon devices. He has owned 7 tier-1 services, reducing cross-regional call latency from 225ms to 85ms by designing and developing an in-region proxy. He has also saved millions of dollars in infrastructure by estimating service scales based on traffic for high traffic events like Prime Day and Christmas deals. Rajagopalan has also developed a chaos engineering tool on top of AWS Fault Injection system that is used by different teams in the Device Software Services org during Q4 events. He has also reduced IMR costs by identifying stale s3 buckets, saving up to $70k in the process. Prior to joining Amazon, Rajagopalan worked as a Software Engineer at AppDynamics. He led the development of an internal platform, integrated Okta SSO, and wrote core backend features and cron jobs for routine jobs. He also migrated an application to a fully automated environment using Kubernetes and created a test plan and automation for a new feature. Rajagopalan holds a Grade XII degree in Computer Science from P.S. Senior Secondary School and has completed his schooling from St. John's. He has relevant experience of 2.28 years and is skilled in Software Engineering, AWS, Python, Javascript, Kubernetes, UI, and Backend development.