Kalyan Kalvagadda
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Cloudera
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKalyan Kalvagadda is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Austin with 15+ years building and scaling cloud SaaS platforms and a 9-year focus on cloud-native services at Cloudera. He combines deep hands-on backend experience—implementing security-focused APIs like Kerberos and FreeIPA integrations in high-profile projects such as Hortonworks Cloudbreak—with proven leadership of metadata and public cloud infrastructure teams. Kalyan’s progression from individual contributor to PMC Chair for Apache Sentry reflects both technical depth in data security/governance and a commitment to open-source stewardship. He has a strong telecom and real-time systems background from earlier roles at Avaya, Polycom, and Sipera, which informs his focus on reliability and performance at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who mentors engineers to deliver secure, operable systems while keeping product velocity. He holds a BTech in Computer Science and blends systems-level intuition with product-minded execution.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech Computer Science Engineering, B-Tech Computer Science Engineering at Annamacharya Institute of Technology and SciencesBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad
English
Github Skills (12)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
spring-boot10
postgresql9
kerberos9
freeipa9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
May 2019 - Sep 2022
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:573 reviews, 115 commits, 101 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kalyan primarily worked on implementing and integrating APIs related to Kerberos management within the FreeIPA integration. They focused on generating, retrieving, and deleting service keytabs and service principals. Their contributions included creating endpoint interfaces, service implementations, and controller classes to facilitate these functionalities. The user also modified model classes to accommodate the API calls.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
apache/sentry
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Mirror of Apache Sentry
Contributions:105 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
sentryapache
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