Noorul Malmiyoda
Distinguished Engineer at HPE Aruba Networking
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolNoorul Malmiyoda is a Distinguished Engineer with 15 years of experience building enterprise-class, distributed systems using Python, Java, and Scala, and deep operational expertise administering Linux production environments. Based in Chennai, he has specialized in data-intensive stacks—Cassandra, Spark, Solr (DataStax), and Kafka—and in automating deployments (Chef/Chef API, DataStax setup). A persistent open-source contributor, Noorul has improved robustness in widely used projects such as spark-jobserver and jclouds, focusing on production resilience and API clarity. His background spans technical leadership roles at HPE Aruba, CollabNet, and contributions to OpenStack and Apache projects, reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and platform-level thinking. Notably, he pairs low-level data modeling skills with pragmatic DevOps automation, making him effective at taking systems from prototype to reliable production service.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
School, School at Government Senior Secondary School, KavarattiB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
English, Malayalam, Hindi
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Github Skills (22)
api-rest10
apache-spark10
spark10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
java10
scala10
javas10
rest-api10
salesforce-rest-api10
testng9
debug8
debugging8
github7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spark-jobserver/spark-jobserver
Jun 2015 - May 2020
REST job server for Apache Spark
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 189 commits, 202 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Noorul primarily focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the Spark JobServer. Their contributions included handling database connection exceptions during startup to prevent unexpected failures, renaming classes for better clarity, and fixing an issue related to database reads by enforcing limits. They also worked on refactoring the API, standardizing job status information, and making enhancements to the create job API. These changes generally improved the stability and functionality of the job server.
apachesparkjobscalaapache-spark
jclouds/jclouds
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
Read-only mirror of ASF Git Repo for jclouds
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Noorul primarily contributed to enhancing the Chef API within the jclouds project. Their work focused on adding new APIs for listing environment recipes and nodes, indicating a focus on improving the functionality related to Chef environments. They also addressed a typo and refactored tests by utilizing TestNG assertions, further improving the robustness and maintainability of the codebase. The user's contributions align with the project's goal of providing a read-only mirror of the jclouds project.
jcloudsgit-reporead-onlyasf
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