Arun Vasudevan
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarArun Vasudevan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with 10 years of experience building reliable data platforms and event-driven backend systems. He specializes in backend development and DevOps, with hands-on expertise in Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Spring Boot to process and route metadata change events at scale. As a contributor to the widely used DataHub open-source project, he implemented core event handling, resilient failure topics, and testing frameworks that improve metadata reliability for Data and AI stacks. Arun blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering—shipping production features while improving observability and fault handling. He thrives at the intersection of data infrastructure and developer experience, often tackling the less-visible plumbing that keeps distributed systems running smoothly.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
kafka10
metadata10
kafka-streams10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
data-engineering9
avro9
data-catalog9
data-governance8
devops8
hiveql6
hive6
hadoop-streaming6
mapreduce6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
The Context Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 21 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Arun implemented core functionalities related to metadata change events processing, including creating Kafka producers, topics, and event handling mechanisms. They added features for sending failed metadata change events to a dedicated Kafka topic and incorporated testing frameworks. The user also worked on integrating Spring Boot into the project and configured Kafka Streams, demonstrating expertise in backend technologies and event-driven architectures.
aimetadatadatahubdata-catalogdata-discovery
arunvasudevan/datahub
Feb 2020 - Mar 2026
A Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Tool
Contributions:8 reviews, 20 PRs, 258 pushes in 6 years 1 month
data-managementmetadata-searchdiscoverymetadatacreative-commons
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