Hi, I'm Manikandan Sritharan.
Software Engineer | Java | C++ | Python | AI & ML
Software Engineer at Salesforce with a B.Tech + M.Tech from IIT Madras. Specializing in scalable backend architectures, distributed systems, and AI.
Experience
Salesforce
Associate Member of Technical Staff 07/2024 - Present- Collaborated with a team of 14 engineers to design, develop, and maintain a Java Spring Boot backend that crawls, scans, and publishes third-party container vulnerability data.
- Researched, evaluated, and executed the migration to an upgraded architecture, reducing the E2E latency of 3PP vulnerability scanning for the production AWS ECR inventory (~70k images) by 66%.
- Designed and executed a configuration-driven refactor of the codebase, enabling self-service onboarding resulting in significant CTS savings.
- Assisted the team in exiting the company-wide moratorium by implementing the required safe change standards (Managed Releases, 100% FIT Trust Check, Argo Rollouts, >80% code coverage).
JavaSpring BootAWS (ECR)Argo Rollouts
Salesforce
Software Engineering Intern 05/2023 - 07/2023- Developed an abstraction layer that standardizes the tool-level results, greatly simplifying the process of onboarding new scan tools and the maintainability of the codebase.
- Designed the entire system to be driven by a configuration file, making it more general and reusable.
JavaSystem Design
Texas Instruments
Summer Analog Design Intern 05/2022 - 07/2022- Developed Novel Calibration Algorithms for the SAR ADC (Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converters) in MATLAB.
- Implemented hybrid Digital-Analog Calibration Logic to optimize the size and speed of the ADC while satisfying performance benchmarks.
MATLABAlgorithm DesignDigital-Analog Logic
Education & Certifications
Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras 07/2019 - 06/2024- GPA: 8.69 / 10
- Awarded a Minor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
- Worked on research projects with AI4Bharat involving Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), pseudo-labelling, and data augmentation for low-resource Indic languages.
- All India Rank 714 in JEE Advanced 2019 and Rank 1210 in JEE Mains 2019.
- Awarded the KVPY SX scholarship by the Government of India.
Skills & Technologies
Languages & Frameworks
Infrastructure & Cloud
Data & AI