Praveen Murugesan
Vice President Of Engineering at Northzone
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Murugesan is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling high‑impact consumer and infrastructure products across Uber, Salesforce, and fast‑growing startups. He has led orgs of 100–250 engineers and large site operations, most recently heading Telematics Product & Engineering at Samsara after running Uber Money and core platform teams that moved tens of billions in annual transactions and powered 100M+ MAU experiences. Equally comfortable in data infrastructure, distributed systems, and developer productivity, he bootstrapped Uber’s data infra and rebuilt the Rider app while later optimizing developer tooling for a 4K+ engineering community. An active angel investor and advisor, he helps early startups scale technology and teams and has contributed performance and stability improvements to notable open-source tooling like Secor for Kafka persistence. Praveen blends hands‑on backend and DevOps expertise with executive product leadership and a track record of growing revenue‑generating engineering organizations across multiple continents.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and SciencePatrick'sMS, MS at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
kafka10
gzip10
hadoop10
java10
performance-testing10
devops9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/secor
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Secor is a service implementing Kafka log persistence
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Praveen primarily contributed to enhancing the performance and stability of Secor, a Kafka log persistence service. They implemented Hadoop Gzip compression, a faster compression method, and fixed a merge-related bug. Furthermore, the user added performance tests to measure Secor's efficiency. Additionally, the user incorporated changes to improve the testing setup and integrate StatsD for monitoring.
sinkloggingopensearchkafka-connectkafka
lefthandmagic/calculator
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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