Palaniappa Ramanathan
Principal Architect at Salesforce
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPalaniappa Ramanathan is a Principal Architect based in Bengaluru with 20+ years building scalable, high-performance enterprise and SaaS platforms, currently leading architecture at Salesforce. He blends a developer-first grounding in C++ and distributed systems with deep experience in Big Data, automation, and reusable frameworks to optimize platform performance and scalability. His career spans impactful engineering and leadership roles at Microsoft, Oracle, Honeywell and multiple analytics firms, where he moved from hands-on engineering to mentoring and managing engineering teams. Known for creating reusable components and solving thorny distributed performance problems, he brings a pragmatic balance of technical depth and team enablement to large-scale product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Bharathidasan University
Github Skills (58)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
delta-lake10
prestodb10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
big-data10
data-analytics10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
indexing10
jdbc10
analytics10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
palaniappa/presto
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Home of the community managed version of Presto, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, under the auspices of the Presto Software Foundation.
Contributions:3 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
queryquery-enginesqlc-plus-plusbig-data
palaniappa/dummy
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:100 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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