# Lakshmanan Palaniappan

> Engineering @ Twitter

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lakshmanan

●Technology lead with eight years of experience in design, development and maintenance of scalable, reliable and maintainable backend software systems.
● Enjoys acting as a force multiplier constantly evaluating and making changes to products, platforms and processes needed for the team to succeed. Loves empowering other engineers, whether it be through code, documentation, or mentorship.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer (Trust and Safety) @ Twitter
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
● Tech Lead Backend Software Engineer, Twitter Health Platform
● Designed, implemented and delivered multiple large sized projects end to end that straddled multiple quarters. 
● Helped to set the technical approach, execution plan for majority of the projects I drove. 
● Hired & coached multiple software engineers during the process.

### Engineering Flight School Instructor @ Twitter University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Offered "How we work at Twitter: Process, Tools and Resources" class as a part of the new hire engineering onboarding a.k.a Engineering Flight School Program
● Took 20+ sessions and helped twitter onboard ~900 new engineering tweeps during the 20 month timeframe
● Mean Recommendation score - 8.4.     
● Media Recommendation score - 9

### Senior Software Engineer (Trust and Safety) @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
● Fullstack engineering on Community Integrity team

### Software Engineer @ Expedia, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
● Lodging Shopping and Hotel Booking backend engineering teams

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
● Developed the Android Auto App for Audible.com from scratch and took complete ownership of it. 
● Designed and built Android Auto related API's in the Audible Android App to support play, pause, bookmark, forward/backward thirty seconds, playback speed and a play queue functionality.
● Developed a Voice search algorithm that receives a voice input (audio book name) from the driver/user and plays the best matched title. 
● Collaborated with the Google Android Platform engineering team & Google developer advocates. Actively contributed to the Android auto support google group. Collaborated with the Google Android Platform engineering team & Google developer advocates. Actively contributed to the Android auto support google group.
● This was showcased in Google's I/O conference 2015 .  
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_DLhApX55ts)

### Graduate Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | University of Southern California
Graduate Assistant for Graduate level Web Technology course CSCI 571 taught by Prof Ellis Horowitz and Prof Marco Papa in Fall 2014 .

### Engineering Innovation  Intern @ Symantec
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Developed a prototype of Android App Spoof detector system that detects spoofed android apps present in the Android App stores around the world .
● Performed static analysis of the Android Apps looking out for several features including name match, image match etc.. to name a few . 
● Summed up the individual feature scores to determine an overall rank based on heuristics in order to rank the spoofed apps in the order of precedence (worst to bad)  present in the Android App Stores .

### Software Developer Intern @ Alpha Cloud Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Chennai Area, India
● Worked on a data warehousing project using Java.

### Summer Research Internship @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Chennai Area, India
● Worked on a project along with a MS Student, IIT Madras to detect and classify spammy IP addresses using Machine Learning   
● Guide : Prof Ravindran Balaraman, Associate Professor Dept of Computer Science- IIT Madras


## Education
### Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence
The University of Texas at Austin

### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### HBS Credential of Readiness & Management Essentials
Harvard Business School Online

### High School in Mathematics  & Computer Science
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Sr. Sec. School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lakshmanansde

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Last updated: 2026-04-12