Sasaunk Vanamali

About

Software engineer who deployed and stabilized a real-time analytics platform at Senecio Software, focusing on production reliability, observability, and performance under load. Experienced debugging issues spanning distributed services and networking (e.g., tracing timeouts to packet loss from misconfiguration) and extending Python (FastAPI/Django) APIs for customer-specific analytics features in a configurable, maintainable way.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Production deployment and stabilization of real-time analytics systems under real traffic
• Systematic debugging across software/services/machines to isolate network-layer root causes (latency spikes, packet loss)
• Performance optimization under load (identifying inefficient DB queries; improving with indexing and caching)
• Building resilient services with monitoring/alerts and graceful failure design
• Customer-driven feature development in Python APIs (custom metrics/filters/exports) while maintaining configurability and maintainability
• Strong requirements gathering via user observation, problem restatement, and rapid demos/feedback loops
• End-to-end ownership of Python backend systems (APIs, data modeling, performance)
• Performance scaling via query optimization, indexing, and Redis caching
• Designing real-time + batch architectures (Kafka + Airflow) with consistency controls
• Building resilient Kafka pipelines (partitioning, idempotent consumers, backpressure, monitoring)
• Kubernetes deployment stabilization through probe and resource tuning
• Practical GitOps implementation with versioned manifests, PR reviews, and rollback via Git