Navin Viswanath
Software Engineer at Roblox
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolNavin Viswanath is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web and data platforms, currently contributing to Roblox after senior engineering roles at Twitter focused on data infrastructure and realtime processing. He has deep expertise in big-data tooling—Spark, MapReduce, Scalding, Apache Beam, and Kafka—and a track record of delivering retail analytics OLAP applications that translate complex datasets into customer value. An effective technical leader and mentor, Navin blends hands-on engineering with product-driven delivery and a willingness to adopt the best-fit technologies. His academic background includes advanced computer science study (MS/PhD work), reflecting a strong foundation in systems and data modeling that informs pragmatic solutions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering, B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering at University of MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Georgia State University
Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
894reputation
98kreached
5answers
19questions
Github Skills (71)
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
sql-query10
cascading10
r10
big-data10
scale10
api10
sql10
data-processing10
jms-queue10
presto10
database10
spark10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
navinvishy/presto
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
navinvishy/spark
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
analyticsdata-processingspark-sqlapachebig-data
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