# Vignesh Murugesan

> Engineering @ Uber

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vigneshmurugesan1

• Building and scaling Uber's Earner engineering systems  |  Contact info: mvignesh[at]outlook.com
• Driving Engineering Fundamentals across our org (250+ engineers)

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building and scaling 𝗨𝗯𝗲𝗿'𝘀 Mobility & Delivery services

𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞:

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦:
    • 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: Offers, Trip Experience, App foundations
    • 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: User feedback and performance metrics
    • 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀: Tech lead of Earner Benefits Platform for managing / orchestrating regulatory benefits across Uber's markets
    • 𝗔𝗱𝘀: Building and scaling Uber's mobility Ads Platform
    • 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: Tech lead of Driver-Platform backend-team building systems to improve marketplace efficiency by integrating real-time demand/supply forecasts with user-intents
    • 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺: Built Uber's Feedback platform to allow product teams to rapidly build and launch products to power drive engagement, platform-quality and user-progression
    • 𝗧𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴: Founding engineer of Uber's Tipping platform. Scaled system from 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 ~$𝟱𝗕/𝘆𝗿

𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗥𝗔/𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦:
    • 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Developed a framework for real-time event aggregation over arbitrary time windows, optimized for reads, currently handling the aggregation of several critical user metrics at Uber
    • 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸: Built Uber's Go service framework, which is currently used by most Go-based backend services

𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀: Go, C/C++, Python, JavaScript
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀:  Distributed Systems, Planet-scale services, Real-time/Streaming services

### Engineering - Xbox @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, Washington
- Part of the Xbox Crypto group, developing new DRM features for PlayReady cloud services and client SDKs
- Improved the iOS Client / SDK of the Microsoft PlayReady DRM technology. It uses a common DRM core and has more than 5 million app-installs per year.
- Developed the secure-time synchronization protocol. This includes a cross-platform client library and a scalable backend service. The service handles about a billion hits every month.

### Engineering - Windows Cryptography @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, Washington
- As part of Windows Core Cryptography team, developed  an Agile ECC cryptography framework
- This allows users to plug-in their own elliptic curve and exercise them through windows APIs

### Engineering - Windows Networking @ Microsoft
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Hyderabad Area, India
Was a part of Windows Networking Core development team:
- Developed DHCP PowerShell Manageability features for Windows 8
- Developed DNAv6 feature in Windows 8.1
- Developed FQDN based policy features for DHCP Server in Windows 2012 R2
- responsible for all flavors of Windows DHCP Client/Server

### Student Partner (MSP) @ Microsoft
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
Conducted several seminars, hands-on labs and contests for students in numerous colleges in India. Have worked with a couple of NGOs and aided in teaching school students about computers

### SDE Intern @ Quizmine
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Design mobile apps for windows phone.

### SDE Intern @ MindTree
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Developed a telephone authority system as a part of the project


## Education
### BTech in Information Technology
Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

### GRG Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vigneshmurugesan90
- Portfolio: http://www.VigneshMurugesan.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12