Arivazhagan L
Software Engineer 4 in Chennai (India)

About Me


I am a Software Architect with 12+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, production-grade systems across distributed platforms, cloud-native architectures, and data-intensive applications.

I bring deep hands-on architectural leadership — having designed systems from first principles through global deployment — with a consistent focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and measurable business impact. I am driven by solving hard engineering problems at scale, not technology for its own sake.

I architect across the full stack and am largely technology agnostic, though I am strongest in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Python, Spark, Scala, JHipster, Linux, PostgreSQL, HBase, Kafka, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Apache Camel, and GCP.

I have a strong architectural focus on Recommendation Systems, Data Platform Design, Distributed Stream Processing, and Algorithm-Driven System Design — building systems that are both technically sound and operationally resilient at scale.

I am always interested in growing as a technology leader and connecting with teams building ambitious, impactful products.

See my LinkedIn profile for more career details.

Highlights

  • Lead Architect of the Velox Portal & Velox Recommendation System at Comcast (Engineer 4) — designing a high-throughput, fault-tolerant platform serving millions of users on the Xfinity Mobile app, with full ownership of infrastructure architecture, performance strategy, and reliability at scale.
  • Architected cloud-native microservice platforms for e-learning product (Blackboard.com) & (KloudLearn.com) using JHipster, Spring Cloud, GCP, HBase, and ReactJS.
  • Designed a petabyte-scale Data Management Platform for SoftBank, Japan — architecting the ingestion, processing, and storage layers using Kafka, Zookeeper, HBase, and Hadoop
  • Architected real-time integration pipelines using the Apache Camel framework and event-driven WebSocket systems for low-latency data delivery.
  • Expertise with Big Data technologies: Apache Spark, Kafka, HBase, Hadoop, Zookeeper, Graylog for stream processing and analytics.
  • Proficient with enterprise technologies: Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes for CI/CD and containerized deployments.
  • Experienced with build automation technologies like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
  • Experienced with building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, etc.
  • Experienced with Scrum/Agile/XP programming development methodologies.

Projects


My personal interests include:

    Big Data. I'm working through several usecases using Apache Spark, Hadoop, Streaming, Kafka etc.
  • Creating things in general. I've always been into gardening; I'm constantly seeking out new projects for freelance.

Current Job (Comcast)

  • Engineer 4 — Software Architect, Chennai — Owning the architecture and technical direction of the Velox Recommendation System for the Xfinity Mobile app:
    • Designing scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure to serve millions of concurrent recommendation requests
    • Defining architectural patterns for high-volume request handling, observability, and operational resilience
    • Driving technical strategy to improve recommendation accuracy, reduce latency, and increase user engagement
    • Leading architectural reviews and mentoring engineers on system design best practices
    • Collaborating cross-functionally to align technical architecture with product and business objectives

Previous Jobs Highlights

  • Microservice Development using JHipster, JPA, ReactJS and GCP Cloud Service.
  • Manage back-end team.

Outsite Work

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