# Sivanesh Selvanataraj

> Software Development Engineer | large-scale distributed systems | Data | Cloud

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

Software engineer with 10+ years of experience in building customer facing, high volume, low latency and cloud applications using cutting edge technologies. I am looking for challenging positions in distributed systems  and artificial Intelligence, machine learning space

## Work Experience
### Consulting Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Jan 2025 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2021 – Present
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Serverless Spark 
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/data-flow/data-flow-tutorial/dfs_tut_front.htm

### Staff Software Engineer @ 8x8
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Reduced latency of real-time application from 2 minutes to 500 milliseconds with  10K events/second for a customer base of 60,000 by re-designing and implementing a  highly scalable distributed application. 
- Saved ~80%  ($200,000/year) on cost  by fine tuning existing distributed  applications in the cloud.
- Enabled customers to  access their millions of call records through RESTful apis by building spring boot based microservices.
- Improved scalability and reduced maintenance of  a customer facing legacy application by  building python based serverless cloud applications in aws.
- Resolved business-critical hard problems with 3x performance improvement  by fixing hotspotting , handling late event issues and migrating redis to cluster.
- Enabled customers to get summary metrics by implementing a 5 minute  event aggregation application using spark .
- Defined coding standards for new products  and coordinated with a team of  10 software developers onsite and offshore.
- Mentored and provided guidance for 3 summer interns to automate 25% of jira triaging  created from customer feedback by doing stemming and labelling using  NLP and classification using  Machine Learning.
- Produced scalability metrics  for elasticsearch and kafka for new  products by doing data modeling and benchmarking elasticsearch indices ,dsl queries, kafka partitioning.
- Boosted search performance by 30% by fine tuning elastic search query dsl and implemented auto-complete and multi-field search on TeraBytes of data corpse.

### Senior Software Engineer @ TiVo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Jose,CA
- Collaborated and built a cross team product with data science  to create predictive tv ad-segments.
- Implemented high throughput distributed application which processed 3 million households, 600 million events  in 30 minutes.
- Architected and implemented a highly scalable set-top box tv viewership  data processing system by using spark, kafka, mapreduce and hbase.
- Boosted the performance of legacy mapreduce applications by 40%  through  identifying and enhancing mapper code.
- Provided guidance and mentored 2 junior software developers with large-scale system design and implementation.
- Integrated and refactored the code base for 2 legacy applications for similar product  features after TiVo and Rovi merger.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bentonville,Arkansas
- Empowered omni-channel sales and marketing decisions by implementing an application which derived  KPIs from sales and financial data.
- Improved code coverage for legacy application from 40% to 75% by revamping the testing methodologies and frameworks.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cognizant
Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 | India
- Automated and reduced  turnaround time for policy change requests for individual life insurance products from 4 days to 30 minutes.
- Re-designed and implemented 3 life insurance products from mainframe legacy systems to highly scalable  web applications.
- Resolved many time and business critical hard problems for customers which involved dollar impacts.
- Guided and mentored 25 software developers from three different teams within the same organization.
Integrated 4 similar insurance products from acquisitions into one single application.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Anna University Chennai


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12