I am a seasoned software developer and leader with management experience directing cross-functional and cross-site software development teams at Microsoft, IBM, and Huawei. I have spent my career across software development, software testing, program management, and research, delivering impact in healthcare, banking, and FinTech domains. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentor team members, and can contribute as both an individual contributor and a manager. I bring strong product design, architecture, and customer advocacy skills, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. I stay current with AI and data science trends to drive innovation and customer value.

Arun Marathe

I am a seasoned software developer and leader with management experience directing cross-functional and cross-site software development teams at Microsoft, IBM, and Huawei. I have spent my career across software development, software testing, program management, and research, delivering impact in healthcare, banking, and FinTech domains. I thrive in collaborative environments, mentor team members, and can contribute as both an individual contributor and a manager. I bring strong product design, architecture, and customer advocacy skills, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. I stay current with AI and data science trends to drive innovation and customer value.

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I am a seasoned software developer and leader with management experience directing cross-functional and cross-site software development teams at Microsoft, IBM, and Huawei. I have spent my career across software development, software testing, program management, and research, delivering impact in healthcare, banking, and FinTech domains.

I thrive in collaborative environments, mentor team members, and can contribute as both an individual contributor and a manager. I bring strong product design, architecture, and customer advocacy skills, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. I stay current with AI and data science trends to drive innovation and customer value.

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Work Experience

AI Prompt Engineer at Mercor
February 1, 2025 - Present
Train widely used AI models by creating context+prompt combinations and providing detailed chain-of-thought reasoning to guide LLMs in domain-specific problem solving, with emphasis on improving domain intelligence for targeted tasks.
Senior Data Engineer at Perfecti.io
February 1, 2025 - Present
Founding member of a FinTech startup; designed and implemented an ETL pipeline; advised on business strategy, technical roadmap, work prioritization, data acquisition, and quality assurance.
Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare
November 1, 2023 - February 1, 2025
Deleted 3 TB of data from PACMan data warehouse; improved SQL Azure ETL/ELT pipelines to reduce data freshness from 12 to 3 hours; disseminated SQL best practices; analyzed Minimum Data Set (MDS) data using Python and ML to derive healthcare insights.
Principal Engineer at Huawei Technologies Canada
October 1, 2018 - May 1, 2023
Optimized two key operators in Huawei's Omni runtime engine by about 60% (2.2x); evaluated Trino and ClickHouse performance; led university research projects; pioneered intelligent cloud DBMS concepts for telemetry insights, anomaly detection, and SQL transaction clustering; contributed to ICDE 2022 and EDBT 2022 papers; US patent on related work.
Senior Software Developer & Architect at VersaBank
December 1, 2011 - September 1, 2018
Architected and led the bank's first micro-service deployment using SOA; implemented authentication/authorization with .NET/C#; integrated open-source packages; built a Django/Python front-end for a deposits management system; designed an API bridging SQL Server and Django/Python; improved SQL Server performance and delivered FATCA/regulatory reporting.
Senior Software Developer (Research) at York University
January 1, 2010 - November 1, 2011
Collaborated with a CS professor to prototype AI algorithms; implemented a Java-based Go player using novel knowledge representation and ML techniques; explored MapReduce-style big data processing with applications in data mining and search architectures.
Project Manager at xkoto Inc.
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009
Managed a project with 15 software architects, developers, and testers; shipped GRIDSCALE database load balancing product for DB2/SQL Server; coordinated benchmarks (TPC-W, custom app) and customer interactions via Salesforce.
Advisory Software Developer at IBM Toronto Lab
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2008
Co-led a 15-person global team using agile methods to deliver three releases of IBM's data warehouse appliance (E7000, E7050, E7100); collaborated with Sun Microsystems on a 3 TB TPC-H benchmark; evaluated DB2 data compression and deployment scenarios.
Program Manager at Microsoft
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2006
Shipped SQL Server 2005 by enhancing query processing and tuning; authored functional specs; managed 25 developers across three teams; helped bring Data Tuning Advisor (DTA) from Microsoft Research to product readiness; co-inventor of SQL Server showplans in XML.
Senior Software Developer at Open Text Corporation
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2002
Developed incubation products using XML technologies (DTD/XML Schema/Relax NG, XSLT, XQuery, SAX/DOM/Java); contributed to XML-based tooling for content management.
Development Analyst at IBM
January 1, 1995 - January 1, 1995
Tested IBM XLF V4R1 FORTRAN 90 compiler; identified and opened over 100 defects in four months.

Education

PhD in Computer Science at University of Waterloo
January 1, 1995 - January 1, 2001
MSc in Computer Science at York University
January 1, 1993 - January 1, 1995
BEng in Computer Science at M.S. University of Baroda
January 1, 1986 - January 1, 1991

Qualifications

Huawei patents granted
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
Microsoft patents (4 total; 1 granted, 3 in processing)
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025
US patent issued for database transaction clustering work
January 11, 2030 - December 17, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services