# Avinash Radhakrishnan > Staff Software Engineer at Turo Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/avinashradhakrishnan As a Software Engineer with over eight years of experience predominantly working on the backend, I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects that have honed my skills in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.Deep expertise in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, OpenSearch, and cloud-native architectures, with a strong track record of translating business needs into scalable, production-grade systems while raising engineering standards across performance, reliability, and maintainability. Furthermore, I have extensive experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, and I have worked with cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud. I am also familiar with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and have experience in deploying applications in containerized environments. I am committed to writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code that meets the highest standards of quality. Tech stack: Languages: Java, C++, Kotlin Database: Oracle, MongoDB Search: OpenSearch, ElasticSearch Framework: Spring Boot, RestAPI, gRPC, Kafka Cloud: AWS, GCP Observability: NewRelic, Datadog Web development: HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, TypeScript, React, NodeJS Other tools: Kubernetes, Helm ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Turo Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed, delivered and launched a low latency real-time inventory price histogram feature using OpenSearch aggregations, and contributed to integrating total trip pricing into search—enabling instant price distribution insights - Drove ~3× performance improvement across Turo’s marketplace search through two-phase querying, OpenSearch storage optimization, and core search library upgrades - Architected and redesigned the vehicle indexing pipeline using AWS SQS and versioning for comprehensive event capture and real-time data availability in Elasticsearch. - Redesigned geo-search and filtering algorithms, improving location-based search accuracy to 99%, enhancing user experience. - Responsible for Turo’s marketplace search platform powering millions of daily queries including indexing pipelines and collaborate across backend services to meet strict latency and reliability SLOs ### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Improved Sigma live edit latency by 60% using K8 headless services and client-side load balancing • Developed a plan to upgrade Sigma live edit service’s MySQL instances with zero downtime • Implemented a golden path testing framework for Sigma’s live edit service ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amobee Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Redwood City, CA • Spearheaded the development for the planner application, resulting in more accurate budget estimations for advertisement campaigns by enabling users to forecast impressions • Architected and developed highly scalable and maintainable service and workflow layers using Spring Boot microservices • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver the product to production using CI/CD and Agile methodologies • Optimized database queries/caching to improve performance in large scale distributed systems • Developed third-party APIs exposing Private Marketplace and location groups for improved ad targeting • Resolved production issues in a fast-paced ”tiger team” environment, ensuring rapid turnaround and minimal disruption ### Software Engineer @ Amobee Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California • Designed and developed a Bid Multiplier to fine-tune the Cost Per Mile (CPM) based on various targeting criteria • Re-designed the aggregation of mobile and display campaigns and successfully live migrated campaigns across the platforms that promoted 80% YoY growth • Designed, implemented and optimized re-trafficking creatives using Kafka pipeline that reduced the latency by 50% ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 • Full stack development in ISU Extensions designing API layer using Java and modelling the MYSQL spatial database components • Designing a standalone Node.js server that has several geospatial components tied along • Handling the ISU Extensions’ web movement to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud instance • Designed a traffic model to display the routes in different intersections across Ames after collecting and modelling traffic data using Leaflet • Developed a GPS Tracker to map the routes travelled by people using Google Maps API ### Software Development Consultant @ Intellect Design Arena Ltd Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Chennai Area, India • Developed the end-to-end financial products for a banking application, ensuring safety and concurrency of millions of queries involving million-dollar transactions. • Developed a robust reporting engine using effective streaming across different Oracle databases and Java APIs to report corporate users’ interest charges • Engineered an advanced customizable data visualization system following MVC architecture to view the cash concentration of corporate banking users • Devised a reporting model that communicates efficiently across different corporate banking products using EJB calls and tracks the application hits on all banking products • Maintained the pixel-level consistency of over 200 screens in the application by shaping JavaScript as an object-oriented language to create the reusable front-end components ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Iowa State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Anna University Chennai Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avinash-radhakrishnan-2519819a --- Source: https://flows.cv/avinashradhakrishnan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avinashradhakrishnan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22