Arun Viswanathan
Motivated backend developer with 18+ years' experience
California, United States
Summary
Experienced backend and infrastructure engineer who worked on large-scale ads systems at Twitter, contributing to major engineering efforts around AdServer decomposition and sharding. x+2
Has contributed to standards and networking work earlier in his career, including authorship on an IETF draft related to MPLS LSR MIBs. ietf
Maintains a personal website and publishes technical and practical articles on Medium (blog.element77), indicating an active interest in sharing knowledge and small projects. arunviswanathan+1
Public developer presence on GitHub (neoblitz) and a LinkedIn profile reflect an outward-facing engineering portfolio and open-source / implementation focus. github
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Affordable AI Use: Keeping Productivity High without Breaking the Bank (blog post)
June 1, 2024Medium/Element77 blog post on practical strategies for using AI affordably and effectively.
Sharding, simplification, and Twitter’s ads serving platform
March 1, 2021Engineering blog post about ShardLib, a sharding library to simplify management of Twitter's sharded ads services and enable dynamic resharding.
Building Twitter’s ad platform architecture for the future
July 1, 2020Engineering blog post describing decomposition of Twitter's AdServer monolith and architectural changes to support multiple ad products.
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switching Router (LSR) Management Information Base (MIB) (draft-ietf-mpls-lsr-mib-14)
November 1, 2003IETF Internet-Draft describing MIB objects for configuring and monitoring MPLS Label Switching Routers; Arun Viswanathan listed as an author.