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About Me

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Graduate student passionate about operating systems, computer networking, and distributed systems with a focus on building high-performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems. Hands-on experience in developing features for CRM platforms, contributing to seamless user experiences and platform optimization.
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  1. San Jose State University

    2024 - current

    MS in Computer Software Engineering

    • Developed an autonomous AI support agent that answers customer queries from help docs and monitors user emotions to flag poor experiences. Escalates to human agents when negative sentiment is detected.
    • Designed a private, distributed blockchain system to ensure the integrity of file access audits using a PoA-inspired consensus mechanism.
    • Developed a scalable social platform for networking and job search, utilizing a queue to handle notification burst scaling and a cache for optimizing database query performance.
    • Built a high-performance distributed document query engine with focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and low-latency response.
  2. Zoho Corporation

    2018 - 2024

    Member Technical Staff

    • Led the major CRM+ release by managing safe data migrations and feature rollouts to ensure a stable, user-friendly upgrade experience.
    • Directed end-to-end development of CRM features—Budget Board, Marketing Calendar, and GDPR tools—leading a 5-member team to serve 250K+ businesses.
    • Improved mobile experience by enabling deep linking from web to app views and standardizing APIs for smoother service integration.
    • Coordinated security efforts by enforcing security guidelines, triaging bug reports, and sharing RCAs to improve team-wide secure coding practices.
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Suriya Shanmugam