KarthikĀ Palaniappan
Engineering Manager at Thomson Reuters
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Palaniappan is an engineering manager in New York with 11 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and developer-focused infrastructure. He has led teams at Google and Facebook, architecting autoscaling and cluster-init solutions for Dataproc and driving engagement features for creator platforms, then transitioned to startup leadership as CTO and co-founder of a healthcare data company where he built a HIPAA-compliant stack and managed dozens of terabytes of sensitive data. As a fractional CTO and advisor he helps early-stage teams establish engineering processes, hire teams, and shape MVP strategy while keeping hands-on involvement in DevOps and prototyping. His open-source contributions include infrastructure and initialization actions for Google Cloud Dataproc, reflecting deep operational expertise in automating cluster setup and big-data tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who balances compliance-minded architecture with product-facing sales engineering. He combines enterprise-scale systems experience with startup grit and a focus on social impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (24)
google-cloud-dataproc10
bash10
automation10
system-administration10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
google-cloud-platform9
apache-spark9
dockers9
debian9
docker9
python8
conda8
jupyter7
openzeppelin7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudDataproc/initialization-actions
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 123 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Karthik primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the Google Cloud Dataproc initialization actions repository. They focused on automating the setup and management of various services like Hive on Tez, Jupyter, and Zeppelin. Key contributions include modifying and enhancing scripts to install and configure software, restart services, and ensure the proper functioning of Dataproc clusters. The user also added features to support BigDL and Debian 9.
nodesgoogle-cloud-dataprockubernetescustomizeterraform
invisible-college/tawk.space
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Social video chats
Contributions:85 commits, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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