- 🧠 Senior Principal Engineer with 12+ years building scalable backend systems and cloud-native microservices on AWS
- 🔐 Co-architected a backup security product serving 6M+ users
- 🤖 Built AI agents (internal chatbot + PR reviews + monitoring automation) reducing engineering query tickets by ~70%
- 💸 Led cost & performance improvements including ~30% AWS infra cost reduction and multiple latency/DB optimizations
- 🧩 I enjoy: distributed systems, performance tuning, reliability, and clean engineering practices
- 📈 30% DB efficiency gain by introducing DynamoDB for high-throughput access patterns
- 🧪 50–60% fewer DB hits using Bloom filter based caching for uniqueness validation
- 🔐 Client-side encryption @ scale using tenant-based KMS keys (multi-tenant, secure isolation)
- ⚡ Maintained p95 < 500ms via rate-limiting / backpressure control-flow framework
- 🤖 Built 4+ AI agents (support chatbot + PR reviews + automated reports + app chatbot), cutting manual workload 60–70%
- Go performance + concurrency (pprof, trace, race detector, worker pools, backpressure)
- Multi-tenant architectures, isolation & encryption patterns
- Building internal developer productivity tools (AI agents, RAG, MCP)
Personalized news briefings using crawling + classification + summarization + TTS.
Browser extension for password-based encryption for sensitive docs.
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gowthaman-thangavel
- ✉️ Email: [email protected]
- 📍 Atlanta, GA