Summary
Rajendra Gujja is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and rearchitecting large-scale distributed data platforms, currently at CrowdStrike after leading Glue 5 development at AWS. He designed high-throughput S3-based Spark shuffling, unified Spark runtimes across services, and created AI agents that automatically modernize Spark applications to reduce customer operational burden. As the first engineer at LeanTaaS, he bootstrapped the iQueue platform and grew engineering from prototype to a 60+ person organization serving 100+ hospitals, blending product empathy with deep infrastructure skills. Passionate about automation and agentic systems, he focuses on using LLMs to reason about and operate complex data workloads with minimal human intervention. Based in California, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-functional collaboration across storage, compute, and security to deliver production-grade systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai