Arun Murthy
Founder at Isotopes AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Murthy is a seasoned founder and distributed-systems engineer with 18 years of experience building and scaling data infrastructure, currently leading Isotopes AI from Palo Alto. He co-founded Hortonworks, later served as Chief Product Officer at Cloudera, and was CTO at Scale AI, blending deep technical leadership with product and go-to-market responsibilities. A long-time Apache Hadoop committer and former VP for Hadoop at the Apache Software Foundation, his hands-on contributions include critical bug fixes and resource-management improvements to the widely used apache/hadoop project. Arun’s career spans both large-scale open-source engineering and senior product strategy, giving him a rare ability to translate operational pain points into durable platform solutions. Known for improving reliability at the core of big-data stacks, he combines rigorous backend craftsmanship with an operator’s instinct for production resilience.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (9)
debugging10
javas10
hadoop-mapreduce10
debug10
mapreduce10
hadoop10
resource-management10
java10
testing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hadoop
Aug 2007 - Feb 2015
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:675 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Arun's contributions focus on fixing and refactoring the Hadoop codebase, specifically addressing issues related to core functionality, and resource management. They fixed bugs in the shuffle framework, corrected output committer functionality for deep hierarchies, and addressed problems that resulted in container launch failures, or caused problems during AM recovery. They also made improvements to unit tests and logging messages for clarity and to ensure that tests would not fail.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
hortonworks/gohadoop
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:42 commits in 11 months
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