Kai Rothauge
Chief Technology Officer at Windjammer Technologies
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Rothauge is a CTO and systems engineer who builds high-performance data processing engines, currently leading development of the Spark Native Execution (SNE) engine at Windjammer Technologies. With a PhD in Applied Mathematics and a postdoc from UC Berkeley’s RISELab, he bridges rigorous research and production engineering to accelerate Spark by offloading to HPC libraries. Over eight years in industry, he progressed from software engineer to CTO while maintaining a focus on scalable execution, numerical methods, and performance-critical systems. His background includes research internships at Max Planck, Fraunhofer, and CSIRO, reflecting deep roots in scientific computing beyond typical product engineering. Based in San Jose, he combines academic rigor with startup velocity to turn cutting-edge distributed systems research into deployable, high-throughput software.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics at The University of British ColumbiaMMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of Bath
Github Skills (10)
spark4
apache-spark4
python4
apache4
scala3
data-analysis3
data-science3
hpc2
azerothcore1
docker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
project-alchemist/ACISpark
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Alchemist-Client Interface for Apache Spark
Contributions:28 commits, 29 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
apachesparkscalaalchemistapache-spark
kai-rothauge/alchemist
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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