Eran Withana
Senior Engineering Manager at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEran Withana is a Senior Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12+ years building and leading high-performing, global teams that deliver observability, telemetry, and large-scale data platforms. He currently leads Snowflake’s Telemetry team, shaping customer-facing alerts and time-series tooling to drive product adoption and actionable insights. Previously he scaled monitoring at LinkedIn to handle billions of time-series and a million alert evaluations per minute, and led capacity and cost governance at Meta — blending deep technical ownership with strategic budget stewardship. A longtime Apache committer and founding contributor to Axis2 and Axiom, he brings rare open-source pedigree alongside enterprise execution. He pairs a PhD-level research background with hands-on system design experience across cloud and on-prem infrastructures, and is known for improving team retention and turning operational complexity into intuitive product experiences.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Eng) - Hons Computer Science and Engineering, BSc (Eng) - Hons Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Indiana University BloomingtonMathematics, Mathematics at Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda
Github Skills (27)
storm9
docker8
golang8
go6
chronos6
mesosphere6
container6
ecosystem6
cron5
job-scheduler4
fault-tolerance4
scale3
fault3
apache3
fault-tolerant3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
echinthaka/ImageSimilarity
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
echinthaka/ansible-hdfs
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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