Ketan Umare
Founder at unionai
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKetan Umare is a founder and engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native platforms, currently based in Seattle. He created and chairs the technical steering for Flyte, an influential open-source workflow orchestration project that unifies data, ML, and analytics stacks, and contributes deeply to both its codebase and developer experience. A hands-on back-end and full-stack contributor, he has improved Flyte’s SDK, installation, and runtime configurability—especially around Spark and S3 integrations—reflecting a focus on practical scalability and operator-friendly UX. Trained at VJTI and Georgia Tech, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with a mentor’s instinct for building high-functioning teams. Outside of engineering, he views systems through the lens of replicated state machines, a perspective that guides his approach to reliable distributed design.
9 years of coding experience
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelors, Information Technology (CS), Bachelors, Information Technology (CS) at VJTI
Marathi, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (20)
spark10
python10
kustomize10
workflow-engine10
sdk10
documentation10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
yaml9
aws9
automation9
automations9
go8
data-science8
cicd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flyteorg/flyte
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Scalable and flexible workflow orchestration platform that seamlessly unifies data, ML and analytics stacks.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & Technical Writer
Full-stack Developer & Technical WriterContributions:6 releases, 402 reviews, 366 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ketan primarily contributed to the documentation and installation procedures for the Flyte platform, updating getting started guides, FAQs, and the overall documentation structure. They also made code changes that involved overhauling the Kustomize configuration. Furthermore, the user added a new how-to guide on Flyte CLI, added examples, and provided general improvements to documentation and the sandbox deployments. These changes reflect a focus on improving user experience, installation, and the overall developer experience.
pythondatamission-criticalgrpcproduction-grade
flyteorg/flytekit
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Extensible Python SDK for developing Flyte tasks and workflows. Simple to get started and learn and highly extensible.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 996 reviews, 584 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ketan's contributions primarily involved enhancing the Flytekit Python SDK. They added debugging capabilities to AWS S3 operations and made configurations for Spark adaptable and overridable. Additionally, the user exposed SparkConf and HadoopConf, and refactored code for improved dependency management. The changes also included modifications to the core models for SparkJob to enable flexible configurations, suggesting a focus on improving the platform's scalability and adaptability.
flytepythondataflyte-taskspypi
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