.png){kind=logo}
Ayyappan Manikandan
Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and distributed systems
Connect with Ayyappan
Ayyappan already has a relationship with Reval, so a warm intro from us gets a much better response than cold outreach.
Recommended
Already have an account?
About
Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).
Find your next great hire
Our AI agents source, screen, and vet candidates for your open roles. Get qualified candidates within 48 hours.
Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end production microservice for supplier inventory submissions (up to 500k items per submission)
- Designed scalable stateless services on AWS EKS with Kafka-based real-time streaming
- Built monitoring/alerting with CloudWatch and custom metrics (throughput, latency, error rates) and handled on-call incidents
- Performance optimization driven by metrics (reduced response times by ~30%)
- Scaled data processing to ~10TB/day by migrating workloads to Apache Spark (cut processing time by ~50%)
- Implemented reliability patterns (automated retries, idempotent processing, deduplication) and managed schema evolution with schema registry/versioning
- Improved scalability for traffic spikes via Kafka partitioning and Kubernetes autoscaling; managed infra with Terraform
- Used observability to quickly diagnose and resolve production bottlenecks (DB query/index fix resolved issue in under an hour)
Like what you see? We'll introduce you to Ayyappan directly.
Experience
Education
Skills
Languages
Similar Candidates
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and AI
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in applied AI and scalable backend systems
Staff-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM inference infrastructure and scalable model serving
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML platforms and cloud-native systems
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and retrieval systems
Ilija Hadzic
Principal Robotics & Autonomy Research Engineer specializing in localization and multi-robot navigation
“Highly experienced robotics software engineer building ROS/ROS2 systems for fleets of autonomous mobile robots (Clearpath Jackal/Husky and custom platforms), spanning localization, navigation, and multi-robot coordination. Has published work at ICRA (including RL-based local planning and heterogeneous robot coordination via a ROS-to-ZMQ bridge) and maintains open-source ROS modules, with strong simulation, debugging, and CI/CD practices.”
Interested in Ayyappan?
We'll personally introduce you - no strings attached.
Build your dream team with Reval
Our AI agents source, screen, and vet candidates for your open roles. Get qualified, high-intent candidates on your desk within 48 hours.
Discover more candidates like Ayyappan
Search across thousands of pre-screened, high-quality, high-intent candidates on Reval.
Search Talent