# Akash Subramaniam Sethumurugan > SDE II @ Amazon Ads | MS CS @ Northeastern University Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akashsubramaniamsethumurugan Graduated from Northeastern University with Master of Science in Computer Science. My specializations are Large Scale Parallel Data Processing, Distributed Systems and Machine Learning ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Teaching Assistant for the course CS 7610 - Foundations of Distributed Systems ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Part of Amazon’s Datapath Runtime team - a Tier1 service in e-Commerce Foundation organization. Datapath is a scalable, compute platform used by Tier-1 services. It is a server-less compute technology internally consumed, along the lines of AWS Lambda services. Datapath is Storage agnostic and hosts data transformation logic as logical services. It enables 600+ other Amazon software development teams to deploy code and has 200k+ hosts and processes 20 million requests per second and that helps run the global Amazon websites, Prime Video, Prime Music and much more. As part of the Datapath team , we design, build, and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that execute business logic, authored by teams across Amazon, millions of times per second in real-time during Prime Day. ### Research Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Built "Cartoscope" which is a platform for citizen science through crowd sourced data analysis and mapping. By sorting, labelling, and locating images, community members can contribute to a variety of mapping projects, such as disaster response. Organizations can create their own projects and invite participants to help assist with their missions. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Mr. Cooper Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Designed Service bus for microservice communications and Distributed systems • Designed solution to receive incoming customers lead, reduced latency for consumers • Deployed services using Docker & Kubernetes in Microsoft Azure using CI/CD scripts • Deployed multiple dependent Databases using Redgate SQL Toolbelt • Worked in Swagger to enable documentations of REST APIs ### Software Engineer 1 @ Mr. Cooper Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 •Integrated multiple third party applications to existing .NET application and exposing respective APIs for the same. •Designed multiple layers and backend Rest API’s using SQL Injection in .Net Core. •Developed various microservices in .NET via a React/Redux powered front end. ### Software Engineer Trainee @ Mr. Cooper Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 •Worked as a Polyglot developer in multiple web applications. •Worked on developing API services using .NET Core •Improved the performance by reducing the number of API calls using Redis cache •Containerized the application code using Docker and added CI/CD pipelines for deployment. •Improved operational stability by integrating fail-over mechanisms, logging, and health check alerts. •Agile practices with daily SCRUM meetings to keep track of the ongoing project status and issues were practiced, and Test-Driven Development (TDD) was extensively followed. ### Research Assistant @ Amrita Multi-Dimensional Data Analytics Lab Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Research | Information Retrieval | Machine Learning | Bhuvan | Indian Space Research Organisation Built a Graph-based Service recommendation system for BHUVAN – an online service portal for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) under Dr. Vidhya Balasubramanian ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akash-subramaniam-sethumurugan-bb578a57 --- Source: https://flows.cv/akashsubramaniamsethumurugan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akashsubramaniamsethumurugan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22