Muthu Palaniyappan Olagappan

Software Engineer II at Appian. Systems performance, distributed systems, platform reliability.

Experience

Software Engineer II Jul 2024 — Present

Appian Corporation, Chennai

Promoted from Software Engineer I (Jul 2024 → Aug 2025)

Cut Production Site Startup time by 57% (3.5h → 1.5h)
Reduce Plugin Loading Time from 25mins to 10mins (60% reduction)
Drove adoption of Java 25 Across platform — 2x lower GC time
Rapid Response Team member; root-caused and resolved 20+ production incidents

Education

B.Tech. Information Technology 2020 — 2024

College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University

CGPA 8.75/10 — First Class with Distinction
Best Project Award (mixed-reality gesture interaction)
Winner of 2 national hackathons; 4 college hackathon wins

Research & Publications

Air Piano Interaction via Flex Sensors and Computer Vision on Edge Devices

IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) 2024

Real-time multimodal gesture-to-audio pipeline with sensor fusion of flex sensors and vision-based hand tracking, optimized for edge devices.

Hackathons & Awards

Winner, Smart India Hackathon 2023 (national)
2nd Runner-Up, National Agricultural Hackathon @ Global Fintech Fest 2023
Best Project Award, Anna University (2024) — mixed-reality gesture interaction
4 college-level hackathon wins