# Aravind Vasudevan > Software Engineer at Meta | Ex-Google | Carnegie Mellon University Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aravindvasudevan Hi there! I’m Aravind, a software engineer who’s all about building cool distributed systems and geeking out over the latest tech. I’m currently working on backend systems at Meta, and before that, I tackled Chrome Infrastructure at Google. Oh, and I’m a Carnegie Mellon alum too! Reach out to me: aravind_vasudevan [at] outlook [dot] com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Ads Infra Team ### Software Engineer III @ Google Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States • Mitigated resource exhaustion-related outages in LUCI CV for chromium/chromiumos related projects by architecting a redis-based quota manager that limits the number of concurrent presubmit runs per user. • Optimized gclient sync no-op runtime by 51.4% in windows that improved chromium developer experience. • Redesigned depot_tools to parse git submodules that unblocks chromium to move away from outdated DEPS. • Reduced user frustration with git-repo by devising a condensed error summary UX that provided actionable next steps. • Aided in master→main migration within the chromium project by contributing branch redirection feature to codesearch. • Increased observability of xrefs coverage within chromium codesearch by building a metrics aggregation pipeline. ### Software Development Engineer II @ GoDaddy Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Kirkland, Washington, United States • Conceptualized a global control group feature which allows teams to access statistical impacts across a series of A/B tests. • Integrated all our analytics services with monitoring tools to measure quality, availability, and performance of the product. • Assembled a jenkins pipeline to test and auto-deploy projects using AWS CDK which is used by two new products. • Volunteered for the scrum master role to handle our project backlog on Jira, scrum meetings, and retrospective. ### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States • Teaching Assistant for 17323/17623: Quality Assurance. • Conducted office hours to help students with their coursework/projects and evaluated the project submissions. ### Intern - Software Development Engineer @ GoDaddy Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kirkland, Washington, United States • Reduced execution time of the analytics tool by two hours by redesigning it into multiple processes. • Devised an AWS Batch based architecture to parallelize analysis in the analytics tool, which will further decrease runtime. • Volunteered for the scrum master role to handle our project backlog on Jira, scrum meetings, and retrospective. ### Member Technical Staff @ Zoho Corporation Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chennai Area, India • Simplified transaction handling by implementing an annotation-based framework using Aspect-Oriented Programming. • Conceptualized an HTTP connection pool library that can share pools between modules separate in multiple codebases. • Modularized i18n keysets by developing a library to load and validate keys across multiple repositories without collision. • Distributed configuration across runtime-dependent repositories by building a tool to manage and validate conf files. • Fixed distributed lock handling mechanism in Zoho CRM, which removed race-conditions between database operations. ### Project Trainee @ Zoho Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chennai Area, India • Minimized dependency among teams by decoupling Zoho CRM into several compile-time independent components. • Architected an observable-based inter-service communication framework that can resolve function calls at runtime. ### Project Intern @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Chennai Area, India • Prototyped a chatbot to simplify data lookup in Planatics, a financial data management tool, using RASA NLU and flask. • Separated the chatbot service from the tool using microservice design-pattern and REST API for service interaction. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science Anna University Chennai Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aravindvasudev - Website: https://aravindvasu.dev/ - GitHub: https://github.com/aravindvasudev --- Source: https://flows.cv/aravindvasudevan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aravindvasudevan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22