# Martin Kurian > Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rivian Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/martinkurian Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in building analytics platforms. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2021 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Engineer @ Turo Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California • Scaling the Turo application. Splitting parts of the monolith into micro services. • Migrated the single solr instance in turo solrCloud • Worked on migrating the single redis to RedisCluster • Worked on improving the infrastructure • Moving kubernetes clusters to sub accounts • Adding new-relic monitoring to the various microservices deployed. • Migrating applications to stackdriver logging • Develop and maintain data pipelines to fulfill the requirements from multiple groups within the origanization. • Setup monitors and alerts around the data platform: ETL jobs, data storage, servers, vendors ### Senior Software Engineer @ Beckon, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Helped design and build the beckon analytics platform. • Helped create a monitoring framework for the ETL pipeline in beckon. • Worked on various features in the platform including auto scaling, pod-spliting etc. • Help mentor new engineers and contribute in the designing new features. • Experience working on build frameworks like maven, java frameworks like tapestry, cross language frameworks like thrift. • Experience on working with aws, using the api. ### Senior Software Engineer @ BrightEdge Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed a cloud-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) platform. • Implemented advanced user interfaces using JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS. • Built key back-end components in Java, Python and PHP. • Identified and Optimized MySQL slow queries. • Participated in the design and development of highly scalable systems using Nutch, Hadoop, and Redis. ### Information Systems Developer @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Implemented the integration of 'Faculty Manager' application to the CMU active directory. Added features for logging Faculty activity on the application. Created SOAP Web Services to integrate the 'Faculty Manager' application with CMU wordpress sites. ### Technical Consultant @ Consona Corporation Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 Designed, developed and deployed product customizations and enhancements to Consona CRM customers. Worked with customers in integrating the out-of-the-box Consona CRM products with the customer's environment. Designed and developed the "Consona Chat plugin" a JQuery plugin using which customers could integrate with the Consona Chat and Consona Case Management applications. Played the role of a Lead Architect in developing innovative customizations, which helped increase Global Services revenue. Played vital roles in key Services projects for Consona's biggest customers. Delivered pre-release product trainings for Consona customers in India (Wipro, Logica) and in the U.S. (Qwest, Time Warner Cable). Conducted various internal trainings on jQuery, Ajax and the use of Json objects instead of XML. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Infor GLobal Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Developed enhancements for the Infor 'Syteline' ERP system. Migrated the 'Syteline' ERP system to .net as a team member in the development team. ## Education ### MS in Information Systems Management Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering Cochin University of Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/martin-kurian-89921b22 --- Source: https://flows.cv/martinkurian JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/martinkurian/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12