Summary
Prasanna Rajaperumal is an experienced software engineer and engineering manager with 11 years building scalable data infrastructure and stream/query processing systems, currently based in Mountain View. He has driven core systems at Snowflake across query compilation, workload optimization, and stream processing, and earlier helped architect real-time data pipelines at Cloudera and next-generation data infrastructure at Uber. Notably, he co-founded Apache Hudi, an influential open-source project for incremental processing on Hadoop, reflecting a strong bias for production-grade distributed systems and open collaboration. Prasanna combines deep systems-level problem solving with people leadership, delivering optimizations that improve large-scale SQL and streaming workloads. He holds a computer engineering degree from BITS and brings a pragmatic engineer’s curiosity honed over diverse roles from startups to enterprise platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of engineering, computer science, Bachelor of engineering, computer science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Tamil