01 /Cloud & observability
Observability demo
Seven polyglot microservices brought together with a Grafana LGTM stack and Canary to explore application observability.
Engineering leadership / Sammamish, WA
Engineering leadership.
Secure data services.
I'm Sethu Srinivasan, a software development manager with experience at AWS and Microsoft. My focus is cybersecurity, databases, and scalable customer-facing services. I lead engineering teams from technical strategy through launch and reliable operation.
Impact at scale
Selected outcomes at AWS and Microsoft.
30K+
Query clusters migrated to Graviton across 8 AWS regions; 20% lower CapEx with availability and performance maintained.
40%
Less testing and certification time through team-built AI log analysis integrated into CI/CD.
~60%
Fewer support cases through self-service SQL Azure diagnostics for failures and throttling.
Leadership & delivery
Roadmap ownership. Technical strategy. Team development.
Amazon Web Services
Software Development Manager
2018–2026
Led eight engineers across database initiatives, owning roadmap, technical strategy, operational excellence, and mentoring.
- Launched Amazon DocumentDB and Amazon Timestream from inception to general availability, with SOC 2 and FedRAMP High compliance.
- Delivered passwordless IAM authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL with a Java auth proxy, eliminating static credentials; showcased at AWS re:Invent 2025.
- Directed large-scale infrastructure migration and accelerated certification through AI-assisted analysis.
Microsoft
Software Development Manager
2014–2018
Led delivery of the Managed SQL Server Instance experience, including automated patching, backup, disaster recovery, and migration tooling—creating a $100M+ revenue opportunity.
- Enabled self-service SQL Azure diagnostics that reduced support cases by approximately 60%.
- Partnered across teams to move Dynamics CRM databases to SQL Azure across regions, reducing expenditure by 30%.
- Worked with Fortune 500 customers on scaling, adoption blockers, and automated database migrations.
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
1999–2014
Developed major portions of SQL Server Management Studio in C# and SQL Agent in C++, spanning management tooling, job scheduling, alerting, and notifications.
Helped establish SSMS as an independent web release for monthly updates and mentored engineers in SQL Server internals.
Hands-on work
Public artifacts that complement my leadership experience.
02 /Android & privacy
DocVault
An encrypted document vault for quick, offline access on Android. Documents stay on the device, without cloud accounts or signups.
03 /Education
AP Physics walkthroughs
Step-by-step AP Physics C problem walkthroughs, with audio to support learning.
04 /Data exploration
Satellite tracker
A Flask application for uploading, parsing, and exploring satellite two-line element data, with SQLite persistence and a reporting interface.
More projects
ExpenseTracker
An expense log built with Next.js and PostgreSQL.
Source codeGreetings
Time-of-day greetings through a CLI and a Worker.
Source codeTechnical foundation
Security. Databases.
Customer scale.
I connect engineering leadership with secure database platforms and customer-facing cloud services. My work spans passwordless authentication, compliance, performance, and migrations; I am also pursuing a Master of Information and Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley.
Leadership
Technical strategy, roadmaps, team development, mentoring, operational excellence
Database platforms
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aurora, DocumentDB, Timestream, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS, Azure, EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, Lambda, CloudFormation, CDK, Bedrock
Cybersecurity
IAM authentication, credential elimination, SOC 2 and FedRAMP High service compliance, encrypted local storage
Customer-facing services
Scalable cloud services, customer diagnostics, database migrations, adoption and performance troubleshooting
Engineering
Java, Python, C++, C#, Go, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin; AI-assisted development and automation
Education
Master of Information and Cybersecurity — UC Berkeley, in progress (2026–present)
Master of Business in Project Management — City University, Seattle (2006)
BE, Manufacturing — College of Engineering, Guindy (1996)
Build secure services at scale.
Connect about engineering leadership, secure data platforms, and scalable customer-facing services.