Baskaran Gopalan
Principal Engineer at Kaiser Permanente
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBaskaran Gopalan is a Principal Engineer based in California with over 15 years of software engineering experience and deep specialization in big data platforms and distributed systems. He has led end-to-end analytics and CDC pipelines at enterprise scale, most recently architecting GoldenGate-to-Hive and model-scoring infrastructure using Spark, Hive, TensorFlow and PyTorch at Kaiser Permanente. His background spans core data-platform work at PayPal and large-scale migrations and optimizations for Apple and Yahoo, with hands-on expertise across Hadoop (HDFS, YARN), Spark, Kafka, Elastic Search, NiFi and observability stacks like Kibana and Grafana. Known for turning complex data flows into reliable production services, he pairs low-level performance tuning (map/bucket joins, custom Java UDFs) with team leadership and delivery ownership. An engineer comfortable across legacy C++/Java systems and modern ML infra, he brings a rare blend of financial compliance, analytics, and operational experience to data-intensive projects.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors B.S.C Mathematics, Bachelors B.S.C Mathematics at University of MadrasMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) COMPUTER APPLICATIONS at Bharathidasan University
Tamil, English
Github Skills (31)
paypal10
data-api10
teradata10
aerospike10
cassandra9
spark9
hbase9
scala9
spark-streaming9
kafka9
pyspark9
api9
elasticsearch8
kudu8
database8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bagopalan/spark-sftp
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Spark connector for SFTP
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
emrsftpconnectorspark-connectorspark
bagopalan/gimel
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Big Data Processing Framework - Unified Data API or SQL on Any Storage
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
big-data-processingstoragebig-data-analyticsdata-apibigdata
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