Ashwin Raghunathan is a technical lead and senior software engineer with over 5 years of experience leading teams and developing highly scalable systems. He has skills in operating systems, programming languages, databases, cloud management, version control, and infrastructure management tools. His work experience includes roles at Zynga developing tools to improve scalability and availability, and as a senior software engineer building capacity management and incident reporting tools. He has an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BEng in Computer Science.

1. Ashwin Raghunathan
Phone: (770)-757-8154
Email: ashwin99@gmail.com
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinraghunathan
Background
Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience working on projects in the
following domains; Web development, Operations, Cloud engineering. Experience with leading a team,
training and mentoring new recruits, overseeing planning, design, implementation of highly scalable systems,
and maintenance of complex server infrastructure.
Technical Skills
Operating Systems Windows (XP, windows 7/8), Linux (RHEL 5-6, CentOS)
Programming/Scripting PHP, Java, JavaScript (Jquery, Dojo), JSP, C++, Python, Shell
Database Oracle 8.0i, MySQL 5.0-5.5
Cloud Management AWS, Rightscale, Zcloud
Version Control GitHub, SVN
Code Review System Arcanist, Phabricator
Continuous Integration Jenkins
Infrastructure Management Puppet, Nagios, Munin, Graphite, Rightscale
Tools/Technologies Apache, Apache Tomcat, Apache Axis2, Websphere Studio Application
Developer v5.1.2, Apache Struts 2.1, VMware web services SDK
Employment
Technical Lead, Zynga Poker. ( Oct 2012 - Present )
I lead the Zynga Casino studio Operations team overseeing two games, Poker and Slots.
Monitor and maintain over 1000 servers, data backup/recovery, network infrastructure.
Built automated infrastructure management tools to improve scalability, fault tolerance, monitoring and
maintaining server health improving availability to 99.999% and reducing manual support by 40%.
Migrated game servers from Centos 5 to Centos 6, migrated web cluster from PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 saving 30%
of our deployment costs.
Built and support setting up dynamic development and release environments to speed up release cycle.
Transitioned game servers to bare metal nodes from Zynga’s private cloud to increase reliability and platform
performance.
(Shell Scripting, Puppet, Nagios, Munin, Perl, PHP, MySQL)
Senior Software Engineer, Shared Engineering Group. ( Feb 2012 - Sep 2012 )
Built Zynga Cloud Capacity Management Tool for modeling and planning capacity needs reducing manual
inventory maintenance time by 95%.
Built Incident Report Management tool to provide a central platform to track incidents impacting a live game,
adopted by teams across the entire organization.
(Dojo Toolkit, Python, MySQL)
Software Engineer, Network Operations Team: ( Aug 2011 - Jan 2012 )
Migrated three games, Petville, Treasure Island, Frontierville from Amazon’s EC2 to Zynga’s private cloud.
Standardized migration process, implementation, new release processes for all the games.
Drove services integration with support from Database team, Network Engineering team and partner groups.
(Cloud Architecture, Shell Scripting, Hudson build scripts, PHP, Jquery, MySQL)

2. Ashwin Raghunathan
Phone: (770)-757-8154
Email: ashwin99@gmail.com
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinraghunathan
Software Engineer, Yoville Game Studio. ( Jul 2010 - Jul 2011 )
Designed and rebuilt entire internal administration website.
Developed in game virtual economy features used by a million users.
Designed and built operations dashboard including real time monitoring and alerting mechanism for game
servers.
(PHP, Java, Jquery, CSS, HTML, ActionScript).
Front End Developer/ Intern, Tata Consultancy Services. ( Jan 2008 - May 2008 )
Developed a Flight Enhancement Rules web application for maintaining cargo shipments of an airline
company.
(Apache Struts, Java, CSS, IBM DB2)
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (Computer Science - Master's degree). ( Aug 2008 - May 2010 )
PSG College of Technology (Computer Science - Bachelor of Engineering, degree). ( Aug 2004 - May 2008 )
Key Projects
RemeBuddy, ( Jan 2012 - Feb 2013 )
RemeBuddy is a micro-blogging, remembering and reminding system, which enables a quick and an easy way
to store information on web and mobile platforms.
(PHP, Jquery)
FootPrints, ( Feb 2010 - Apr 2010 )
A geo-location based social networking web application primarily for smartphones, PDAs that aims to allow
users to track and share their experiences with their friends.
(Android SDK 1.6/2.0, Google Maps API, Yelp API, Facebook Connect API, Twitter API)
Spam Classification System, ( Sep 2009 - Dec 2009 )
A case based reasoning system which is used for classifying spam messages from regular mail based on a set of
features extracted from previously trained spam cases. It then uses footprint deletion strategy to retain
relevant cases.
(Java, MySQL)
Publications
“Improving Huffman Coding by applying Static Huffman method over Adaptive Coded message”, 6th
National Conference on Convergence of Information Engineering.
Activities/Awards
Completed ‘Photography as Art’ and Intermediate Photography Courses, Stanford Continuing Studies.
State ranked Table Tennis player.