Palaniappan Nagarajan
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
California, United States
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Top SchoolPalaniappan Nagarajan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale AI/ML platforms and cloud-native distributed systems, currently driving platform work at Databricks after a multi-year tenure at AWS. As a founding engineer and lead for Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, he architected serverless notebooks, Spark integration, programmatic notebook execution, and cross-org data governance that unlocked enterprise adoption. His expertise spans AI/ML infrastructure, secure multi-tenant execution, elastic compute and autoscaling warmpools, and enterprise SSO/IAM guardrails—balancing developer productivity with stringent compliance. A UW–Madison grad student-turned-production engineer, he combines research experience in scalable entity matching with practical open-source tooling and a track record of shipping flagship services from concept to GA.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor's degree, Computer science and engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer science and engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, Tamil
Github Skills (33)
jupyter-notebook8
amazon-emr8
notebook8
jupyter7
jupyterlab7
sigv47
wolfram-language6
jupyterlab-extension6
amazon6
backend5
endpoints5
aws5
python5
emr5
pytorch4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cyn0/ExceptionHandler-and-push-notifications
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 33 pushes in 7 days
cyn0/PiggyBack
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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