About

Surya Pandian is an accomplished software developer and creative writer with over 8 years of experience in the tech industry. As a software developer, he has extensive knowledge in various programming languages such as Go, Rust, and Ruby on Rails, and has worked with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. He is also familiar with Queues such as RMQ and SQS, and has expertise in CI/CD tools like AWS, k8s, Github Actions, CircleCI, Docker, and Terraform. Apart from his technical skills, Surya is also a freelance writer who has had an article published in "infinite thoughts" and takes up freelance writing requests on Upwork. He is currently working as a Senior Software Developer at Truelayer, where he is responsible for migrating DB credentials accessed by applications from k8s secrets to vault with zero downtime. He has also improved the performance of services by optimizing SQL queries, improved latency of service by migrating from RPC over RMQ to gRPC, and is working on supporting recurring payments in ledgers. Prior to Truelayer, Surya has worked at Qube Cinema as a Senior Software Developer, where he was responsible for developing applications that schedule and deliver advertisement and movie content to theaters across the world. He has also worked at Voonik - Every Woman's Personal Stylist as a Software Developer, where he built, deployed, and scaled event-driven microservices from the legacy code, set up a master-slave database in production, and trained machine learning models powered by Nvidia toolchains that classified images. Surya holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in ECE (engineering) from Mepco and has a diverse tech stack that includes Software Engineering, Ruby, SQL, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Redis, Docker, MySQL, Elastic Search, and ML. With his extensive experience and technical expertise, Surya Pandian is a valuable asset to any organization.