# Ashwin Gopalsamy - Full AI Profile

## Summary
I build resilient, internet-scale backend systems with Go, AWS, and event-driven architecture, with experience across fintech and platform engineering.

## Current Role
Staff Software Engineer at VISA

## Skills
### Languages
- Go
- Bash
- Python
- TypeScript
### Cloud and Platform
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- Grafana
- Prometheus
### Databases and Tools
- PostgreSQL
- DynamoDB
- Snowflake
- Sentry
- Jira
- Confluence
- Miro

## Experience
### VISA | Staff Software Engineer | May 2025 - Present
- Link: https://www.visa.com
- Works on Pismo, a cloud-native platform for banks and fintechs.
- Contributes to reliability and real-time decisioning for high-volume financial systems.
- Focuses on long-term platform integrity, modularity, and resilience.
- Technologies: Go, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Microservices

### Solaris SE | Professional Engineer | June 2022 - April 2025
- Link: https://www.solarisgroup.com
- Owned core-banking accounts domain services for interest-bearing products.
- Built cloud-native event-sourced microservices for scale and uptime.
- Contributed to savings and credit-card interest products as major revenue components.
- Technologies: Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Snowflake, Microservices, Distributed Systems

### Hexaware | Software Engineer Associate | June 2021 - June 2022
- Link: https://hexaware.com
- Contributed to enterprise distributed systems and performance improvements.
- Helped deliver cloud HRMS for 75K+ users in a large-scale production environment.
- Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Oracle Cloud, Databases

## Selected Projects
### UUID v8
- Description: Open-source Go library for RFC-compliant UUIDv8 generation.
- Link: https://github.com/ash3in/uuidv8
- Technologies: Go, UUID, RFC-9562

### UUIDCheck
- Description: Zero-dependency Go utility for validating UUID formats.
- Link: https://github.com/ashwingopalsamy/uuidcheck
- Technologies: Go, UUID, RFC-4122, RFC-9562

### VSCode Theme: MacOS Dark
- Description: Custom VS Code theme for a minimalist, high-contrast dark workflow.
- Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ashwingopalsamy.macos-dark-theme
- Technologies: VSCode Extension, Design Tokens

## Source of Truth Endpoints
- JSON summary: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/api/ai-summary
- OpenAPI spec: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/.well-known/openapi.yaml
- Plugin manifest: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
- AI sitemap: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/ai-sitemap.xml

## Contact and Identity
- Website: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/
- Canonical profile: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/ashwin-gopalsamy
- Email: ashwin2125@icloud.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ashwingopalsamy
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashwingopalsamy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashwingopalsamy
- Blog: https://ashwingopalsamy.substack.com

Last updated: 2026-02-10