Summary
Manikandan M is a Senior Engineering Manager in San Jose with 10 years of experience designing and operating high-performance, scalable distributed systems and real-time data platforms. He currently leads AIOps Event Analytics at Splunk, managing three cross-geo teams (20+ engineers) focused on alert noise reduction, observability, and stream processing. Previously he built fault-tolerant stream processing and microservice architectures at Malwarebytes, improving query performance and data quality for security telemetry. Comfortable shifting between hands-on technical leadership and people management, he has deep expertise in Kafka/Kinesis, real-time enrichment pipelines, and API-driven data platforms. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State and brings a pragmatic engineering approach shaped by production-scale systems across cybersecurity, finance, and consumer analytics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University
English, Tamil, Hindi