About

Saravanan Arumugam is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in the technology industry. He is deeply passionate about working with people and software systems, and is always eager to learn more from both. Saravanan has worked on a variety of systems including search, recommendations, functionally rich workflows, and consumer-facing applications. Currently, Saravanan is a Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where he is part of the India Growth team. His focus is on improving the growth of India and emerging market LinkedIn members. He has worked on multiple experiments including improving profile details of members, better on-boarding experiences, and connections growth through cohorted pymk recommendations. Saravanan has gained a deep understanding of online, near-line, offline, and experimentation systems, as well as the client ecosystem of the android app and mobile web. Saravanan has also worked at Flipkart as a Software Development Engineer, where he was part of the recommendations system. He developed and maintained the serving layer that sends product and user-based recommendations in Flipkart. He also scaled the serving layer, database, and cache, and gained exposure to computation frameworks such as Storm and Hadoop, as well as NoSQL databases like Redis, Aerospike, and Hbase. Saravanan has also worked at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer, where he worked on improving the top 10 results shown on Bing.com for any query. He developed tools to help ranking developers and gained exposure to search engine components, machine learning, and distributed file systems. Saravanan holds a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from the Government College of Technology in Coimbatore. His tech stack includes software engineering, search, Android, mobile, web, Redis, NoSQL, Hadoop, microservices, ML, and infra. Saravanan is a highly motivated and skilled engineer who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.