Krishna Puttaswamy
Principal Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Puttaswamy is a Principal Engineer in Mountain View with 11 years of experience building large-scale data, ML, and marketplace systems across Databricks, CoinTracker, Uber, and Airbnb. He has repeatedly led infrastructure reboots—driving multi-fold performance improvements and cost reductions—while shipping reliable data ingestion, serving, and analytics platforms used at scale. His background blends academic research (PhD in distributed systems with publications on cloud storage and confidentiality) with hands-on production engineering, from Hadoop and ML infra to real-time marketplace optimization. Notable work includes building Cubert at LinkedIn and leading Airbnb’s Bighead ML platform, reflecting a focus on memory-conscious algorithms and end-to-end ML/analytics pipelines. Based in the Bay Area, he thrives on hard systems problems like pricing/matching, forecasting, and secure, cost-efficient cloud services, and often bridges research ideas into production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Distributed Systems Security and Privacy, Ph.D Distributed Systems Security and Privacy at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (68)
python10
automation10
orchestration10
flask10
data-analytics10
scheduler10
data-visualization10
monitor10
data-science10
apache10
analytics10
data-analysis10
visualization10
machine-learning10
react10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
krishnap/test1
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
airbnb/camus
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Kafka to HDFS pipeline
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
pipelineconnectorhdfshadoopkafka
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