Arun V is an engineering manager and seasoned data platform leader with 11 years of experience building secure, cost-effective data infrastructure at scale, currently leading teams at Grab in Singapore. He has driven mission-critical initiatives—from in-house role-based access systems (BiFrost, Singapore patent) and ABAC migrations using OPA to deploying Airflow V2 on Kubernetes and cutting datalake costs by ~40%—bridging security, ML platform, and operational excellence. Known for hands-on delivery, Arun moves between architecture, implementation, and people leadership, with deep expertise in Spark, Presto/Trino, cloud storage integrations, and data governance. Pragmatic and collaborative, he enjoys working with teams applying data science and engineering to real-world problems and iterating on modern analytics and mining algorithms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Govt. Model Engineering College
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Chinmaya Vidhyalaya
An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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