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.
4 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 (21)
catalog10
rewrite9
big-data9
declarative9
management9
flink-sql8
relational8
translation8
portable7
apache-hive7
database6
linkedin6
sql6
scala6
apache-spark6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
maluchari/openhouse
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Open Control Plane for Tables in Data Lakehouse
Contributions:64 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year
maluchari/transport
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
A framework for writing performant user-defined functions (UDFs) that are portable across a variety of engines including Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
emrperformantudfsbig-dataapache-spark
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