Ganesh Sankaran
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolGanesh Sankaran is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems, currently contributing to Oracle’s data lakehouse efforts from Fremont, CA. He has a deep track record across social, search, personalization, and real-time notification products, moving systems from MySQL/ACID to NoSQL, graph stores, full-text search, and big-data stacks. Known for quickly adapting across languages and platforms—from FreeBSD and C++ to LAMP and Java containerized environments—he blends hands-on engineering with testability and SRE-minded automation. At Yahoo and Cloudera he built high-throughput fan-out systems, knowledge-graph search APIs, and infrastructure validation frameworks that emphasize repeatable, low-touch testing. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs product-focused design with a history of driving CI/automation and cross-functional collaboration to deliver highly available, fault-tolerant services.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at College of Engineering, GuindySt. Josephs' Higher Secondary School
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (72)
hadoop10
data-management10
bakery10
governance10
big-data10
cloud-services10
cloudera10
artificial-intelligence10
cdp10
dagster10
warehouse10
analytics10
java10
data-governance10
azure-cosmos-db9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cegganesh84/collabtweet
May 2016 - Oct 2020
Twitter for developer collaboration
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
collaborationtwitter
cegganesh84/cdp-azure-tools
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Cloudera CDP Tools for Microsoft Azure
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
azure-cosmos-dbcdpmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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