Kannan Rajah
Staff Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKannan Rajah is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and shipping high-throughput, low-latency distributed data systems for both real-time and batch workloads. He has led cross-organizational teams at Google to deliver managed services and multi-tenant aggregation infrastructure that ingests tens of millions of events per second and powers real-time analytics for flagship products. Known for pragmatic architecture, he drove a 60% reduction in production toil by re-architecting 100+ pipelines and simplifying client infrastructure while balancing cost and SLOs. His background spans foundational work at VMware and MapR on real-time ingestion and scheduler integrations, and academic research on scalable reservation and scheduling algorithms. At Temporal Technologies he continues to apply that blend of deep systems knowledge and operational rigor to complex, customer-facing platforms. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who prefers measurable impact over jargon, with a knack for turning theoretical scheduling ideas into production-scale solutions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (32)
python10
r10
java10
api10
sql10
text-editor9
spark9
large-scale9
scala9
jdbc9
big-data9
data-processing9
scale9
vim9
lua9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rkannan82/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:60 pushes in 5 years 9 months
rkannan82/spark
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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