Padma Chitturi
Engineering Leader, Database Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPadma Chitturi is an engineering leader specializing in platform and data infrastructure with 12+ years of experience building production-grade ML and data platforms across enterprises like Indeed, Expedia Group, and Uber. A gold medalist and author of "Apache Spark for Data Science Cookbook," she blends deep hands-on expertise in Spark, streaming, and feature stores with strategic leadership that scaled teams and services across US, APAC, and Japan. At Indeed she led a 25+ member distributed organization to deliver self-serve MLOps, low-latency feature stores, and GenAI inference innovations that cut deployment times from weeks to days. Her early open-source contributions to Apache Storm and engineering work tuning Spark internals reflect a sustained commitment to performance and operational reliability. Known for hiring and coaching strong engineering teams, she pairs technical depth with product-minded delivery—often surfacing practical trade-offs that make complex ML systems maintainable at scale. Based in Bengaluru, she currently leads multiple platform charters focused on database reliability and data infrastructure at Uber.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadSSC, Maths, Science, Social, Hindi, English, Telugu, SSC, Maths, Science, Social, Hindi, English, Telugu at St. Francis De Sales High SchoolIntermediate, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Intermediate, Maths, Physics, Chemistry at Gowtham Junior College of Intermediate, Vijayawada
Github Skills (9)
javas10
apache-storm10
java10
configuration-management9
script8
distributed-systems8
batch8
streaming8
batchfile8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/storm
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Apache Storm
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Padma primarily contributed to the Apache Storm project by modifying command-line scripts related to the `config_value` functionality. They added support for retrieving configuration values for various Storm daemons, specifically focusing on updating the `bin/storm.cmd` and `bin/storm-config.cmd` files to incorporate this feature. These changes involved using the `config_value` command to fetch options related to child processes and modify their parameters within Storm, enabling the dynamic setting of environment variables for these processes.
apache-stormstormapachedistributedstreaming
ChitturiPadma/Scala-Tutorial
Jun 2014 - Jun 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years
briefscalaprogramming-scala
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