Prasanna Subburaj
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolPrasanna Subburaj is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, event-driven data platforms at Walmart Global Tech, currently focused on data engineering and streaming pipelines. He combines deep expertise in distributed systems, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark and cloud-native deployments with hands-on language skills in Java, Scala and Python to move and transform data at milli-second latencies. At Walmart he has architected inventory aggregation and real-time ecommerce streaming pipelines, improved connector throughput by 25%, and led cost-saving migrations from VMs to Kubernetes. He speaks publicly about production Kafka at Kafka Summit SF 2019, underscoring his operational and evangelism experience. Prasanna’s background in embedded systems and early work with microcontrollers and MATLAB gives him a practical systems-level perspective that informs his approach to performance and reliability. Based in Bentonville, AR, he pairs rigorous coding standards and CI/CD best practices with mentoring and SOX-compliance experience to deliver resilient, auditable data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School Mathematics Physics Chemistry and Computer Science, High School Mathematics Physics Chemistry and Computer Science at G.R.G Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor's Degree Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronics and Communication Engineering at Anna University Chennai
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
Github Skills (15)
kafka-connector8
sink7
apache-kafka7
confluent6
streaming6
kafka-connect5
kafka5
hdfs5
big-data4
hadoop3
circuit3
oneops3
ovirt1
kubernetes1
vsphere1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
prasanna1433/SteinerTree
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
prasanna1433/prasanna1433.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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