Kiran Rajaram

About Kiran Rajaram

Senior Staff Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and scaling highly available, distributed cloud platforms across enterprise automation, analytics, and real-time systems.At IBM, I work on WatsonX Orchestrate, where I lead the design and development of a generalized enterprise connection and authentication platform supporting OAuth2 (all flows), SSO, API Keys, and custom security models. I collaborate closely with product, support, and platform teams to improve reliability, security, and customer adoption. Recipient of the IBM Entrepreneur Award for innovation and impact.Previously, as Technical Lead at HIFX, I owned end-to-end architecture and execution of high-traffic, data-intensive platforms, including real-time systems with 200k+ concurrent users, clickstream analytics pipelines, and enterprise SDKs used across web, mobile, OTT, and ad ecosystems. Scope & Impact - Designed and scaled distributed systems on AWS using EKS, ECS, EC2, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kafka, Redis - Improved system performance by 50% using Web Vitals and backend optimizations - Reduced manual operational effort by 90% through automation - Increased client revenue by 75% via performance and scalability improvements Engineering Leadership - Drive architecture, system design, and technical direction - Lead sprint planning, code reviews, and design discussions - Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality standards - Partner with Product, Data Science, and Operations teamsI enjoy working on ambiguous, large-scale problems, building platforms that last, and mentoring engineers to operate at Staff+ level. Skills Snapshot - Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, Python - Frontend: React.js, Next.js, D3.js, Web Performance - Backend: Node.js, Go, REST, Distributed Systems - Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EC2, EKS - Data: DynamoDB, Aurora, MySQL, Kafka, Snowflake - Practices: System Design, DSA, Code Quality, Mentorship

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Engineer

   IBM

   Mar 2024 — Present · Kochi, IN

Education

• Mahatma Gandhi University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Programming
• Problem Solving
• C#
• Asp.net
• Microsoft Sql Server
• C++
• Html5
• Java
• Javascript
• C
• Css
• Algorithm Development
• Problem Solving and Programming
• Microsoft .net
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Golang
• Elasticsearch
• Mysql
• Webtechnologies
• Sql
• React.js
• Redux
• Bootstrap
• Scss
• Node.js