Karthik Palanisamy
Principal Engineer, Backline at Cloudera
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Palanisamy is a Principal Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building and troubleshooting large-scale data and backend systems. He has progressed through engineering and senior staff roles at Hortonworks and Cloudera, now focused on backline operations and incident resolution at scale. Known for blending deep hands-on debugging with product-minded engineering, he helps stabilize complex distributed platforms while driving long-term architectural improvements. His background in R&D and solution integration at Ericsson gives him strong systems thinking and cross-team collaboration skills. Though not a prolific GitHub profile, his career trajectory reflects consistent ownership of production reliability and customer-facing problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Kamban Engineering College
Github Skills (13)
hbase10
big-data10
spark10
hadoop10
apache10
java10
database10
apache-hadoop10
elixir8
sql8
apache-phoenix6
htaccess1
network-server1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
karthikhw/hbase
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Mirror of Apache HBase
Contributions:48 PRs, 48 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 11 months
apache-hbaseconnectorsqlapachedatastream
karthikhw/hadoop
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Apache Hadoop
Contributions:10 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
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