Dwarakesh Venkatasamy
Lead Data Engineer(Infrastructure)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolDwarakesh Venkatasamy is a Lead Data Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable data infrastructure, currently leading infrastructure efforts at Gojek from Bengaluru. He specializes in distributed systems, microservices, and DevOps, with hands-on expertise migrating workloads to Kubernetes, authoring Helm charts, and managing stateful systems like Kafka, Trino, Flink, Elasticsearch and Airflow. At Rapido he built a SECOR-based ingestion framework for Kafka-to-GCS, managed self-hosted Trino clusters with custom Ranger patches, and developed a Trino plugin for query performance analysis—demonstrating both platform depth and pragmatic performance tuning. Earlier roles at N26 and ThoughtWorks show his product-facing engineering instincts, improving KYC conversion through vendor integrations and championing DevOps automation and event replay capabilities. He favors simplicity and consistency, practices Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) and Pipeline as Code, and enjoys tackling complex projects where operational reliability and developer productivity intersect. Colleagues would note his “get stuff done” attitude combined with an eye for scalable, maintainable platform design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 7.622, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, 7.622 at SASTRA UniversiyHigher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Vijaya Ratna Junior College
English, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (16)
dataops8
open-data8
charts8
k8s8
data-platform8
helm7
kubernetes7
analytical6
guardian6
ecosystem6
schema5
protobuf5
data-access5
compliance5
extensible4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
snorlacs/charts
Nov 2021 - May 2024
This repository is home to the original helm charts for products throughout the open data platform ecosystem.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
chartshelmhelm-chartsopen-datakubernetes
snorlacs/digital-mirror
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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