Shyam Rajendran
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShyam Rajendran is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, virtualization, and hybrid cloud platforms, currently building services at Microsoft. He spent a substantial portion of his career at Nutanix across ascending technical roles, contributing to storage and infrastructure product engineering, and earlier honed his systems skills at Cisco and Motorola. Shyam holds a CS master’s from UIUC (3.85 GPA) and an engineering degree from PSG College of Technology, reflecting strong academic foundations alongside industry impact. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed core functionality to the widely used Apache Storm project—improving ShellBolt/ShellSpout environment handling and deployment-related APIs—which underscores his attention to operability in distributed workloads. Known for bridging low-level system concerns with production deployment realities, he brings pragmatic design and debugging experience to complex cloud-native problems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignB.E, Electrical & Electronics Engineering ( Sandwich ), Distinction with CGPA of 9.15, B.E, Electrical & Electronics Engineering ( Sandwich ), Distinction with CGPA of 9.15 at PSG College of TechnologyComputer Science Elective, Class X - 92.2 % , Class XII 92.3%, Computer Science Elective, Class X - 92.2 % , Class XII 92.3% at Atomic Energy Central School
Github Skills (8)
javas10
distributed-systems10
apache-storm10
back-end-development10
java10
multithreading9
environment-variables9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/storm
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Apache Storm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shyam primarily contributed to the Apache Storm project's core functionality by implementing and modifying components related to ShellBolt and ShellSpout. Their work focused on allowing these components to set environment variables, particularly for the PATH. They also addressed review comments and resolved import issues while testing on a local machine, likely impacting the deployment and configuration aspects of Storm topologies. Additionally, the user worked on providing pending count API.
apache-stormstormapachedistributedstreaming
bourneagain/configs
Jul 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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