Varadharajan Damotharan

Principal Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Cloud Platforms

11+ years designing and operating distributed cloud-native systems. Architecture ownership, cross-team engineering standards, cloud cost optimization, and technical leadership.

Selected impact

$1M+ annual Azure savings through distributed compute optimization, Spark/Flink tuning, and automated lifecycle governance.
80+ Kubernetes clusters supporting petabyte-scale data streaming.
30-40% lower streaming pipeline latency through Kafka, Spark, and Flink optimization.

Experience

Microsoft | Principal Software Engineer (L65)

Dec 2022 - Present

Distributed backend systems, Kubernetes platforms, streaming pipelines, and cloud cost governance. Architecture ownership and engineering standards across teams.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Software Engineer (IC4)

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

Oracle Kubernetes Engine, telemetry ingestion, and OpenTelemetry-based monitoring and tracing.

Publicis Sapient | Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

Distributed services in Go, Scala, and Java; AWS infrastructure, APIs, and deployment automation.

Siemens | Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2017 - Aug 2019

Spring Boot services, reactive programming, security, and API contract testing.

Tata Consultancy Services | System Engineer

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017

Java enterprise applications, Spring MVC, Oracle database integration, and production support.

Technical skills

Java, Go, Python, Scala, Spring Boot, gRPC. Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI. Kafka, Spark, Flink, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, eBPF.

Selected public projects

Agentix Platform: LangGraph orchestration on Kubernetes.

Agentix: eight agentic AI applications.

CORTEX: AI-powered log management.

Education & recognition

M.Tech., Data Science & Machine Learning, 2021-2023.
B.Tech., Electronics Engineering, 2011-2015.

Codility Golden Awards: Ruthenium and Rhodium, 2019.
Oracle recognition for technical leadership and problem solving.