About

Rangaraj Kaushik Sundar is a highly skilled full-stack software engineer with over 6 years of industry experience and a master's degree in Computer Science. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Spark AR, Facebook Reality Labs, where he is responsible for developing cutting-edge software solutions for the AR industry. Rangaraj is a keen learner with strong analytical and interpersonal skills, which have helped him excel in his career. He has worked with a variety of technologies and platforms, including Spark, Javascript, ReactJS, Java, AWS, Redis, Redux, Frontend, Kubernetes, Research Scientist, Elastic Search, Recommendation system, Web, Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Typescript, Kafka, Mobile, and Backend. Before joining Spark AR, Rangaraj worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Whatfix, where he was a key member of the Content creation management team. During his time at Whatfix, he worked on improving the digital adoption process for customers and architected and implemented end-user analytics across all Whatfix customers. He also headed the efforts to create Whatfix tech blogs. Prior to Whatfix, Rangaraj was an Engineer 2 at Ticketmaster, where he was a key member in developing the Platinum tool, a game-changing approach to ticketing that allows dynamic pricing of events based on real-time data. Rangaraj was responsible for configuring metrics-based monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, CloudWatch, and Grafana. He also increased tool responsiveness by building a "caching" layer using ElasticSearch, Logstash, and ElastiCache (Redis). Additionally, he reduced costs by configuring ASGs and moving services to use AWS Lambda/Kubernetes. Rangaraj's education history includes a master's degree in Computer Science from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Anna University. Overall, Rangaraj has relevant experience of 8.95 years in the software engineering industry. He is a highly motivated and dedicated individual who is always looking to learn and grow in his career.