Varadharajan Damotharan
Principal Software Engineer
Distributed systems / Cloud / AI

VaradharajanDamotharan

I build distributed systems and the platforms they run on. 11+ years across cloud infrastructure, streaming data, and backend engineering. Now exploring agentic AI applications and their runtime infrastructure.

$1M+

Annual Azure savings through compute optimization and lifecycle governance.

80+

Kubernetes clusters supporting petabyte-scale data streaming.

30-40%

Lower streaming pipeline latency through Kafka, Spark, and Flink tuning.

Selected public work

All repositories ↗
01 / Agent infrastructure

Agentix Platform ↗

LangGraph orchestration on Kubernetes, with gateway-governed model access, A2A endpoints, and persistent memory.

Python · Kubernetes · EKS · Istio · MongoDB Atlas
02 / AI applications

Agentix ↗

Eight applications exploring retrieval, SQL agents, research, document intelligence, and software engineering.

TypeScript · Next.js · React · LangGraph
03 / Observability

CORTEX ↗

An AI-powered log management project focused on observability.

Java · Telemetry · Log management
04 / Backend systems

Subscription Reminder Service ↗

A multi-tenant Spring service with an outbox pattern, scheduled dispatchers, and a React admin interface.

Java · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL · Cosmos DB

Engineering experience

Architecture / Delivery / Leadership
MicrosoftDec 2022 - Present

Principal Software Engineer · L65

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

Oracle CloudJan 2021 - Dec 2022

Software Engineer · IC4

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

Publicis SapientAug 2019 - Jan 2021

Software Development Engineer II

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

Earlier experience, education, and recognition
SiemensJun 2017 - Aug 2019

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

TCSJun 2015 - Jun 2017

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

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.

Tools I work with

Build

Java, Go, Python, Scala
Spring Boot, gRPC

Run

Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI

Move data

Kafka, Spark, Flink
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Observe

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus
Grafana, Datadog, eBPF

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Talk systems with me.

Architecture, cloud platforms, distributed data, or an engineering role. Connect with me on LinkedIn.