Summary
Janarthanan Poornavel is a founder and principal engineer with 11 years of experience building data-intensive systems for startups, currently leading Intics.ai from Chennai. He has deep hands-on expertise in crawling, text-as-vector classification, indexing, machine learning for user–product correlation, and distributed systems (Scala/Akka, Hadoop, HBase, Solr). Janarthanan architected and migrated large-scale legacy data platforms—handling billions of transactions per day—and built an in-house data processing framework and reporting stack at YuMe. As founder of Juno/Humingo he designed a production web product catalog that aggregated half a million fashion items using automated curation and NLP-driven filters, learning hard lessons about when Hadoop is and isn’t the right choice. He combines pragmatic engineering with a startup founder’s resourcefulness, owning devops, production maintenance and iterative product work across small infra footprints. Notably, his view that “big data is more about architecture than the Hadoop stack” comes from direct migration and operational experience rather than theory.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Madurai Kamaraj University
Higher secondary, Higher secondary at Sainik School Amaravathi Nagar
English, Tamil