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R. Sivasubramanian

Senior Software Developer & Technical Lead · Chennai

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Experience & Timeline

9+ years building scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise platforms. Leading engineering at KRDS Digital.

2019 — Present
Senior Software Developer & Technical Lead
KRDS Digital · Chennai
Led backend & cloud platform for Ski Dubai and Magic Planet (Majid Al Futtaim). Architected One-Booking-System, introduced OpenTelemetry, Infisical secrets management, and drove AWS ECS + GitLab CI/CD migration.
PHP/LaravelNode.jsGoAWS ECSDockerK8sOpenTelemetry
2016 — 2019
Software Developer
KRDS Digital · Chennai
Built full-stack web apps and REST APIs for regional and global brands across PHP, MySQL, and JS stacks. Grew into owning delivery of multi-module projects end-to-end.
PHPMySQLJavaScriptREST API
2015 — 2016
Junior Web Developer
Early Career · Chennai
CMS platforms, e-commerce, and front-end development. Built foundations in web engineering and client delivery.
HTML/CSSJavaScriptWordPress
Side Project
Wand.social
Founder & Developer · SaaS
Self-conceived SaaS social wall aggregator built end-to-end — architecture, backend, DevOps, and frontend.
Node.jsAWSRedisMySQL

Let's Connect

Open to senior backend, lead, and platform engineering roles — especially in Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, and Japan. Reach out on any of these channels.

LinkedIn
siva-thecmsguy
GitHub
@sivasubramanian
X / Twitter
@siva_dev

Writings & Notes

Thoughts on backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and career reflections. More coming soon.

Go
Go for Backend Engineers Coming from PHP — An Honest Ramp-Up
What changes, what's surprisingly familiar, and what tripped me up picking up Go after 8 years of PHP/Laravel.
GoPHPBackendLearning
Observability
OpenTelemetry in a Laravel + Node.js Stack — A Practical Guide
How we instrumented a polyglot microservices stack and shipped traces, logs, and metrics to New Relic without losing our minds.
OpenTelemetryLaravelNode.jsNew Relic
// full blog launching at sivasubramanian.space/blog