Padma Nagaraj
Engineering Manager at The Apache Software Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPadma Nagaraj is an Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience leading teams and shipping user-focused software across large data platforms. Currently at Booking Holdings after leadership roles at Cloudera, she combines people management with hands-on engineering, driving delivery and improving developer and user workflows. As an Apache Ambari committer and full‑stack contributor, she has made notable front-end improvements to Hadoop cluster management UIs—enhancing Ember.js components, job creation flows, and workflow visualization. Her background spans software engineering through staff-level roles, giving her a strong grounding in both implementation details and strategic technical direction. Known for improving user experience in complex distributed systems, she blends product empathy with a pragmatic approach to operational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Tamil
Github Skills (16)
uid10
workflow-management10
emberjs10
javascript10
front-end-development10
big-data8
ui-design8
graphical-user-interface7
user-interface7
api-design5
restful-api5
rest-api5
api-rest5
javas4
java4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ambari
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 1 comment in 25 days
Contributions summary:Padma primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and workflow management features within the Apache Ambari project. Their contributions involved modifying Ember.js components and templates to retain job properties, improve node grouping in transitions, and improve credential creation. They also addressed issues related to workflow zoom functionality and coordinator actions, indicating a focus on front-end user experience improvements. Furthermore, they implemented features related to the new job creation in the Hive20 view.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
hortonworks/dps-navigation
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
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