Ajith Manmadhan

Software engineer building data pipelines and cloud infrastructure on AWS.

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” - Helen Hayes

Recent Projects

Trust-Nothing Data Pipeline

Pipeline for running untrusted tenant code safely: uploads land in a quarantine bucket, GuardDuty scans the data, and the code executes inside a sealed AWS Lambda MicroVM with no internet access, a logs-only role, and hard resource limits. Only clean, validated output is promoted to the trusted bucket. Defense in depth, managed end-to-end with Terraform.

Lambda MicroVMs
GuardDuty
Step Functions
EventBridge
S3 Access Points
VPC
Terraform
Python
Async Trace Propagation

End-to-end distributed tracing across an async SQS boundary, where traces normally break. The producer injects trace context into SQS message attributes; the consumer extracts it per message and links child spans back to the original request — including batches, legacy messages, and error reporting. Built with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry and CloudWatch Application Signals.

OpenTelemetry
ADOT
Lambda
SQS
API Gateway
DynamoDB
CloudWatch Application Signals
MeterFlow

Usage-based billing engine handling event ingestion, deduplication (Redis SET NX), aggregation (ClickHouse), tiered pricing, fraud detection (Z-score + cosine similarity on hourly vectors), and Stripe invoice generation. Includes production architecture mapping to AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, ElastiCache, S3, EventBridge).

TypeScript
Fastify
Redis
ClickHouse
Stripe
MinIO/S3
Docker
AWS Architecture
Webhook Broker

Production-grade webhook ingestion system with replay capabilities using AWS Kinesis Data Streams. Treats Kinesis as immutable event log to enable time-travel replay and subscription state recovery for payment webhooks.

AWS Kinesis
Lambda
DynamoDB
API Gateway
SQS
TypeScript
Python
Terraform
AI Customer Retention Agent

Autonomous AI agent built with AWS Bedrock AgentCore that identifies at-risk customers and proactively offers personalized retention deals through natural conversation.

AWS Bedrock
AgentCore
Claude 3.7
Next.js
Cognito
Lambda
Athena
Resilient Relay

Production-grade reliability patterns for payment systems: exponential backoff with jitter, bounded queues, and idempotency. Built from AWS Builders' Library patterns.

TypeScript
Node.js
Express
AWS Patterns
Reliability Engineering
Serverless Orders Pipeline

Event-driven SNS → SQS fan-out on AWS with Lambdas for publishing, DynamoDB persistence, and S3 archiving; Terraform-managed VPC, endpoints, and observability.

AWS Lambda
SNS
SQS
DynamoDB
S3
ALB
VPC
Terraform
AWS Telco Churn Analytics

Serverless data analytics pipeline using S3, Glue, Athena, and QuickSight to analyze customer churn; Terraform for reproducible infrastructure.

S3
AWS Glue
Athena
QuickSight
EventBridge
Terraform
books i've read

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
“100 Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez
“So Good They Can't Ignore You” by Cal Newport
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“The Happiest Man on Earth” by Eddie Jaku
“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari
“The Courage to Be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

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