Kiran Dama
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Dama is a Senior Software Engineer based in Fremont, CA with four years focused on cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, release engineering and Kubernetes at Snowflake. He has hands-on experience maintaining and improving database drivers and connectors—contributing version bumps, telemetry features, and reliability fixes to Snowflake's JDBC, Python, and Go projects. Prior roles at Branch, Lacework and Tata Consultancy Services reflect a steady progression from systems engineering to infrastructure and release analytics. Kiran combines a master's in software engineering with pragmatic maintenance work that keeps critical client libraries production-ready, and his contributions show an attention to observability and backward-compatible releases that often go unnoticed.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
python10
snowflake10
databases10
jdbc10
java10
javas10
go10
api10
sql10
management10
version-control10
versioning10
database10
api-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Snowflake JDBC Driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 11 reviews, 32 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kiran primarily contributed to bumping the JDBC Driver version and incorporating corresponding changes. Their commits mainly involved updating the `SnowflakeDriver.java` file with new versions, and modifying the `CHANGELOG.rst` to reflect the release notes. The user also made version upgrades of dependencies (like arrow and jackson) and integrated bug fixes and new features related to JDBC driver functionality, like support for VARBINARY byte arrays and improved error handling. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the driver's performance, and reliability.
accumulomysqlsqlspring-jdbcsnowflake
snowflakedb/gosnowflake
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Go Snowflake Driver
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 2 reviews, 20 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kiran primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Go Snowflake Driver. Their contributions revolved around bumping the driver's version, reflecting incremental releases and bug fixes. The user also made modifications to support telemetry features, including updating error messages, connection parameters, and telemetry tests. These changes show an active role in enhancing the driver's functionality and monitoring capabilities.
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