Nirmala Sundarappa is a Principal Product Manager with 11+ years driving developer-focused platform products and database connectivity at Oracle and Yodlee, combining deep technical expertise in JDBC/UCP with a strong customer- and revenue-driven product sensibility. She has a proven track record launching developer portals and SDK-based offerings—creating developer.yodlee.com and leading Oracle JDBC/UCP product collateral—resulting in thousands of active API customers and measurable adoption increases. A seasoned presenter and author, she’s spoken at Oracle OpenWorld and published white papers that helped enterprise customers adopt advanced database connectivity features. Nirmala blends hands-on back-end/database engineering experience (notably contributing JDBC/UCP samples and Autonomous DB connection examples) with cross-functional influence across sales, marketing, and engineering to convert technical value into upsell and product-led growth. She holds an MBA from UIUC and is based in Fremont, California.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science & Engg, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science & Engg at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Contributions:15 reviews, 232 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nirmala primarily contributed to Java-based examples focused on Oracle Database interactions. Their commits involved updating connection URLs, database user credentials, and code related to database access, including examples for UCP, JDBC, and WebLogic Server. The changes focused on connecting to Autonomous Databases (ATP/ADW) and other Oracle database configurations, demonstrating a strong focus on database connectivity and configuration. The user also added new code samples, particularly for index-by table (Associative Arrays) in JDBC.
Examples of applications and tool usage for Oracle Database
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 9 months
db2oracle-databasedatabase-accessoracledatabase
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Nirmala Sundarappa - Principal Product Manager at Oracle