About

Rajapandian Alagarsamy is a highly experienced Senior Engineering Manager at Freshworks, with over 16 years of relevant experience in the field. He specializes in developing and providing support for multiplayer games and high traffic web sites/services, as well as web applications development for both internal and external use. Rajapandian has extensive experience in building platforms, systems, and networking infrastructure, and is particularly skilled in starting new projects from scratch and working in existing project support. Throughout his career, Rajapandian has worked on a variety of high traffic websites, games, and products, and has gained expertise in working with third-party APIs, payments, analytics, and ad integrations, such as Facebook Canvas, Apple Payment, GPlay Payment, Kindle, Yahoo, and more. He has worked as an individual contributor, team member, technologist, and lead, and has honed his skills in software engineering, web development, PHP, Javascript, AWS, backend, mobile, MySQL, infra, NodeJS, search, integration, Golang, UI, Python, testing, designer, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Jenkins, iOS, ETL, and GCP. Prior to his current role at Freshworks, Rajapandian worked as a Software Architect & IT Lead at Vegannection, and as a Senior Technology Manager at Viacom18. During his time at Viacom18, he created serverless (lambda, GCP) for various functionalities, including payment subscription, search, content, and more. He also worked with multiple vendors for feature integration for both Voot and VootKids, and took care of OTT content, Algolia, elastic search, Kaltura, subscription management. Additionally, he configured Zendesk advance features and custom implementation for the Customer Support Team and created a dashboard for agents. Rajapandian holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from RCET (Anna University), which he completed in 2006. With his extensive experience and expertise, he is a valuable asset to any team or organization in need of a skilled and experienced Senior Engineering Manager.