Malini Venkatachari
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMalini Venkatachari is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with four years of professional experience focused on distributed systems and scalable infrastructure. She currently contributes to LinkedIn’s Big Data Infrastructure team and previously built distributed file system components at Cohesity and a multi-dimensional hierarchy platform on graph databases at Cisco. Her background blends hands-on system design with production-grade engineering across storage, graph data, and large-scale data pipelines. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science from Stony Brook and a BE from College of Engineering, Guindy, she brings both academic rigor and practical experience to complex backend challenges. A detail that sets her apart is early-career progression through multiple technical roles at Cohesity, showing rapid growth from intern to senior member of technical staff.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering at College of Engineering, GuindyMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (13)
user-defined-function10
catalog10
data-lakehouse9
management9
big-data9
linkedin8
apache-hive8
declarative8
apache-spark7
hive7
sql6
presto6
apache-iceberg6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maluchari/openhouse
Apr 2024 - May 2026
Open Control Plane for Tables in Data Lakehouse
Contributions:70 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 2 months
maluchari/iceberg
Feb 2022 - Sep 2025
A temporary home for LinkedIn's changes to Apache Iceberg (incubating)
Contributions:43 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 7 months
changesincubatingapache-icebergapachelinkedin
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