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Vijay Thirugnanam

Vijay Thirugnanam

Inference @ Cerebras

Toronto, Ontario, CA
Tamil, English

Background


About

About

Hands-on Full stack Engineer with a proven track record of building, launching, and scaling web products for early-stage startups and small, high-velocity teams. Highly proficient in AI-driven development workflows using Claude Code, with broad full-stack expertise spanning multiple programming languages, stacks, and business domains. Known for bringing a long-career perspective to engineering teams—striking the optimal balance between rapid product iteration, architectural quality, and cross-team execution.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Cerebras Systems

    May, 2022 - Present

    Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web platforms, complex data visualization, and autonomous AI developer workflows.

    • Autonomous AI (2026): Architected multi-agent engineering workflows (Claude Code API) to automate JIRA ticket execution, code reviews, PR generation, and merge conflict resolution.

    • Inference Platform (2024–2025): Founding engineer for our core inference launch. Led integrations (Hugging Face, OpenRouter, AWS), security infrastructure, and developer console rate-limiting controls.

    • Dev Tools & Hardware Viz (2022–2023): Built internal debugging tools, including a Fabric Viewer for wafer-scale Processing Elements (PEs) and MLIR dependency graph tools.

  • Software Engineer, Vijay Consulting Services

    Aug, 2016 - Jan, 20225 years 5 months

    Enterprise SaaS and application development for multiple product clients.

    • DANDI (DEI Analytics) — Served as a Founding Engineer building an enterprise SaaS platform for DEI data analysis. Engineered core analytics features, including interactive Explore views, custom executive Dashboards, and automated Campaign tracking workflows.

    • XENSAM (Software Asset Management) — Contributed to the core engineering of an enterprise SaaS platform designed to optimize and streamline corporate software asset management.

    • GIST (Product Recommendations) — Drove key user experience and engagement features for a product recommendation application, implementing push notification systems, user profile management, and interactive product onboarding walkthroughs.

  • Architect, Indecomm Global Services

    Jan, 2016 - Jun, 20165 months

    INCOMEGENIUS (FinTech / Insurance Automation)

    • Served as Lead Architect for a cloud-native platform hosted on Azure, taking the product from concept through successful beta launch.

    • Designed and automated end-to-end underwriting workflows, leveraging OCR technology and automated processing to dramatically reduce manual evaluation time for underwriters.

  • Solution Architect, Svasthya Healthcare (MakeMeOK.com)

    Jan, 2015 - Dec, 201511 months

    MAKEMEOK.COM (Healthcare Aggregator)

    • Served as Founding Engineer and first technical contributor, building a healthcare aggregator platform from zero to launch to connect users with hospitals and doctors across major Indian cities.

    • Designed a responsive desktop and mobile web interface.

    • Engineered an Elasticsearch-powered backend deployed on AWS for fast directory discovery.

    • Built a dedicated field-agent app to streamline data collection and MySQL database ingestion.

  • Senior Software Engineer, Dell

    Mar, 2013 - Oct, 20141 year 7 months

    DELL.COM (eCommerce Platform)

    • Contributed as a Core Engineer on the Dell eCommerce team responsible for maintaining and scaling dell.com.

    • Engineered the high-traffic global search bar featuring intelligent auto-complete and product recommendations.

    • Collaborated across cross-functional engineering teams to integrate microservice architectures.

    • Upgraded backend logging infrastructure to improve system observability.

  • Consultant, Microsoft

    Sep, 2011 - Feb, 20131 year 5 months

    MICROSOFT SERVICES (Global Delivery) — Software Engineer on the Global Delivery team, partnering with enterprise clients to architect and deploy custom solutions using Microsoft technologies.

    • Engineered an automated content scraping service for American Airlines to extract and process Exchange mailbox data.

    • Built a modern Metro-style web application for ABM (facility management).

    • Developed the "Executive Directory" enterprise portal for NewsCorp.

  • Project Manager, ABB

    Dec, 2008 - Sep, 20101 year 9 months

    ABB (System 800xA R&D) — Project Manager within the 800xA R&D division, overseeing cross-functional engineering initiatives across the Engineering Studio and Batch Management product teams.

    • Led sprint planning, requirements definition, architecture reviews, and overall delivery.

    • Built an Earned Value Analysis tracking model to streamline project health reporting.

    • Spearheaded the complex, cross-border transition of the Batch Management codebase and development operations from the US to the India engineering team.

  • Project Manager, iGATE Global Solutions Ltd

    Apr, 2007 - Nov, 20081 year 7 months

    PROJECT MANAGER (Sony BMG & RBC Client Accounts) — Delivered mission-critical enterprise web applications for tier-one clients.

    • Led end-to-end delivery for Sony BMG's SPIDER platform—a core web application for sales and purchase reconciliation.

    • Directed the development of an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform for RBC.

    • Managed the full project lifecycle, from requirement analysis and project planning to stakeholder communication and progress tracking.

  • Programmer Analyst, Infosys

    Dec, 2002 - Apr, 20074 years 4 months

    INFOSYS / CONSULTING (Enterprise Financial & Technical Solutions) — Software Engineer delivering high-impact solutions across major enterprise clients in finance, energy, and technology.

    • Financial Services: Designed and tested complex benefits calculation models for Fidelity, built an internal Fidelity project portfolio tracking web app, and contributed to product design initiatives at Bank of America.

    • Banking Infrastructure & Business Intelligence: Built an enterprise application health and monitoring solution for Washington Mutual, and engineered executive reports for Bank of America using MicroStrategy.

    • Data & Database Engineering: Contributed to a core ETL pipeline for BP, authored an Infosys MTC whitepaper on SQL Server 2005 architecture benefits, and built a custom Windows automation tool to migrate databases from SQL Server 2000 to 2005.

  • Senior Software Engineer, Megasoft

    Sep, 2001 - Dec, 20021 year 3 months

    ACCELIANT (Clinical Trial Management SaaS) — Software Engineer on the Acceliant product development team, building web solutions to streamline clinical trial data collection and monitoring.

    • Engineered critical hotfixes that resolved memory leaks and boosted overall platform performance.

    • Developed dynamic web forms enabling clinical trial managers and field researchers to securely collect and write trial data to the database.

  • Software Engineer, HCL Technologies

    Jul, 1999 - Jul, 20012 years

    HCL TECHNOLOGIES (Internet Technologies Group) — Software Engineer delivering specialized web applications and supporting pre-sales growth.

    • Maintained SmartWatch—a high-reliability system performance monitoring product for Landmark Technologies.

    • Contributed to the development of a real-time telecom analytics platform for Global Crossing to power fast decision-making for stockbrokers.

    • Partnered with leadership to respond to technical RFPs, helping secure new client accounts for the practice group.

Skills

Skills

  • React
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • C++
  • GraphQL
  • Prisma (ORM)
  • Postgres (SQL)
  • AWS
  • Terraform
Education

Education

  • Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

    Jan, 1994 - Jan, 1998

  • Computer Science, XII, SBOA

    Jan, 1992 - Jan, 1994

Certificates

Certificates

  • Deep Learning Specialization,

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