Trinayaan Hariharan

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - CS3001 @ Georgia Institute of Technology

About

As a Georgia Tech CS student, startup founder, I'm passionate about building the next generation of tech and AI innovation. My vision is to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI, scalable cloud infrastructure, and real-world business solutions. I thrive at the intersection of entrepreneurship, engineering, and product strategy, having scaled tech teams, launched products, and led diverse projects across payments, machine learning, and cloud-native systems. Let's connect if you're interested in collaborating on startups, exploring the future of AI, or driving product innovation together!

Country

United States

City

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Software Development, JavaScript, New Business Development, Software as a Service (SaaS), Node.js, Human Resources (HR), Working with Investors, Project Management, Stocks, Engineering, Team Development

Experience

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - CS3001

Georgia Institute of Technology

2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Support instruction for a course focused on the ethical, societal, and professional impacts of computing and information technology. Guide students in understanding real-world case studies, policy issues, and foundational concepts in technology ethics.

Director of Genesis

Startup Exchange

2024-5 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Atlanta, GA

* Designed and led a program teaching student builders ideation, rapid prototyping, and shipping with AI tools, encouraging public building on X (Twitter). • Mentored 100+ students who took ideas from 0→1 in a 5-week program and connected founders with VCs for mentorship/fundraising.

Campus Ambassador

Perplexity

2025-8 - 2026-1 · 6 mos

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Growth Team for Comet: https://pplx.ai/trinayaan-hariharan

SDE Intern

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2025-5 - 2025-8 · 4 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Architected and developed a scalable internal dashboard to monitor global AWS Lambda invocation patterns and detect accounts with recursive function loops to prevent runaway workloads. • Designed an ETL pipeline using AWS Lambda to extract data from Redshift via the Data API, transform and clean it, and load it into S3 for downstream processing. • Leveraged AWS Glue and Athena for data analysis and built insightful dashboards in Amazon QuickSight to visualize trends in real-time Lambda usage. • Implemented complete infrastructure automation using AWS CDK and integrated CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployment and reproducibility across environments.

Co-Founder

PayBridge Technologies

2022-5 - 2025-5 · 3 yrs 1 mo

United States

Building the bridge to connect everyday payments, while bringing the world closer together with every step.

Software Engineering Intern

Travelers

2024-5 - 2024-8 · 4 mos

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

• Developed additional features for an XML Utility Tool that enables underwriters to efficiently retrieve and parse data from XML files stored in AWS S3 buckets and DynamoDB. • Created a Lambda function to make automated DynamoDB data updates based on inputs to determine adding, updating or deleting table entries. • Gained expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to ensure a smooth Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Created Production Deployment (PD) requests and collaborated with bridge team members to successfully implement changes into the production environment.