About

Surendhar Sundaresan is an outcome-oriented Senior SDE with almost 8 years of experience in demanding environments focused on producing significantly complex, high availability systems for the IT industry. He is currently working as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he leads 2 teams with 13 SDEs in developing resilient tier-1 service for vehicle inspections with 99.9% availability and performance/host: 180 RPS and 200 p99.9 latency. He has also developed a platform service to proxy requests at 1k RPS scale to 35 tenant applications in AMZL portal with high availability, resilience, low latency, and fault isolation. Surendhar is proficient in providing technical leadership and direction. He is well-organized and customer-focused with proven skills in project management and team leadership. In his previous role as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, he spearheaded 5 projects from the ground up developing architecture and solution pioneering in Native AWS, as well as guided teams in design, implementation, planning, and execution. He also influenced business and technology direction aligning teams and orgs toward simple, coherent designs, with constructive and quantitative data points. He mentored engineers on engineering, operational excellence, and leadership principles. Surendhar has a Master of Science in Software Engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology, which he completed in 2014, and a degree in Maths with Bio from Shrishti Matric Hr. Sec School, which he completed in 2009. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Mobile, AWS, and Web technologies. Overall, Surendhar has 9.62 years of relevant experience in the IT industry.