Kiruthika Elamurugan
Full Stack Developer | Java, Spring Boot | React TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL | Scalable Frontend & Resilient Backend Architectures | AWS, Docker, CI/CD
- Role
- Software Engineer at Shopify
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kiruthika Elamurugan
Passionate and solution-driven Full Stack Developer(Engineer) with experience in…
Experience
Software Engineer
Aug 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Engineered distributed microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs, enabling personalized contentrendering and modular theme extensibility across high-traffic Shopify storefronts. Designed scalable backend schemas for Metafields and JSON templates and exposed them via GraphQL/REST APIsto support OS 2.0 themes and headless storefronts (Hydrogen/Oxygen). Refactored monolithic services into Dockerized microservices deployed on AWS EKS, leveraging IAM roles,CloudWatch, and Prometheus for observability and performance tracing. Led cross-functional technical collaboration with frontend, infrastructure, and design teams to implementschemabased personalization features. Built high-throughput APIs and logic extensions using Shopify Functions and WebAssembly, powering extensiblecheckout, discount, and shipping logic for merchant customization. Developed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD, enabling automated validation, rollback, andblue/green deployments for backend APIs and schema changes. Collaborated with DevOps and infra teams to implement CDN-edge caching strategies via Fastly and Cloudflare, andarchitected event-driven cache invalidation, reducing render latency by 35%. Resolved system bottlenecks and reduced storefront load latency by 35% through analytical debugging andperformance profiling. Maintained orchestration and secure storage workflows on AWS (EKS, IAM, S3)—ensuring 99.99% uptime across500K+ concurrent storefront users. Enabled AI/ML-based personalization infrastructure by exposing structured content APIs to recommendationengines and token-gated services
Education
Clark University
Master of Science - MS
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