# Ramya Sundaresan

> SDE @ Infinitus | ex-Amazon

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

Passionate programmer, mentor, and mom with ~5 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently a member of technical staff at a startup that applies AI in healthcare - automating calls between patients, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance agents. Previously, I was a lead software development engineer at Amazon in the Seller Experience org working on a service to detect and handle abusive and fraudulent cases. Always willing to share my insights to those wanting to learn!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Infinitus Systems, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- SPIRE (Smart Payor Identification & Resolution Engine) (https://www.infinitus.ai/blog/the-payor-mapping-challenge-and-the-infinitus-solution/)

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
SDE with Network State Management
Project work includes: 
- DROID adoption - new metadata tagging approach for ownership data. increased adoption from 35% to nearly 70% of devices
- NSMv3 APIs - new APIs that support entity-relationship model for device objects

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Project work includes:
- Case storage and lifecycle system
- Email Intake system
- Case auto-resolution and response system targeting abusive cases
- Intern mentor and manager

### Software Engineer @ CME Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area
Project work includes: 
 - Development of pattern detection algorithms to identify disruptive activity on the trading market
 - Migration of applications and processes to a Microservices architecture

Technologies used: Java, SQL, AWS (EC2, EMR, S3)

### Research Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hanover, NH
Worked on a project that applies machine learning towards a healthcare application.

### Graduate Researcher @ Cornell University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Ithaca, New York Area
Williams Lab. 
Research work on designing efficient algorithms for relationship inference and pedigree reconstruction from genomic data.

### Teaching Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Ithaca, New York Area
Teaching Assistant for an introductory programming course on object oriented programming using Java
CS 2110: Intro to OOP and Data Structures.
CS 1109: Fundamental Programming concepts (summer 2017)

Head TA:
Admin for all TAs for this course. Manage/run TA meetinngs and course infrastructure.

### Peer Mentor @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | UIUC Computer Science
Peer mentor for Computer Science 199: Introduction to Hypergraphics. This is a paid position with duties covering everything that will be expected from an '​in-class' assistant - assisting students with programming, tutorials, assignments and grading student work. 
Outreach for female students enrolled in the class. Ensure adequate support for female students to complete the course. Administer Piazza discussion forum.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ UIUC MatMed - Laboratory for Materials in Medicine
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Biomedical Research Center at Carle Foundation Hospital
Research work on cardiovascular stents which involves studying and performing computational simulations of cardiovascular stents. Received 'Best Presentation - Health' award at the undergraduate research symposium, Urbana, IL. 

Published in the Journal of Advanced Healthcare Materials. (10.1002/adhm.201700008)

### Project Trainee @ Syngene International Limited
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
One month research internship at Syngene, a division of Biocon.

### Undergraduate Research Intern @ Purdue University Computer Science Department
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | West Lafayette, IN
Performed Network Similarity Decomposition (NSD) alignment on different networks.

### Course Assistant for CS 125 @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Course Assistant for CS 125. Work involves helping students with lab activities and answering questions related to the course work and projects.

### Student Researcher @ University of Illinois at Chicago
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Chicago
Studied cell morphogenesis in Dr. Liang's lab. I introduced additional logic into an existing C++ program to handle cell adhesion and programmed cell death and presented this research at IMSAloquium, an annual student conference.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
Cornell University Graduate School

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering - with minor in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### High School
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rss94

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Last updated: 2026-04-11