Summary
Ramana Nagaraj is a Distinguished Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building scalable observability, data and orchestration platforms for large enterprises. He has led cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives at LinkedIn—migrating petabytes of metrics from Avro to ORC with zero downtime and making metrics GDPR-compliant—and now architects “observability-as-code” and pipeline-wide monitoring at GEICO. His background spans QA and test automation leadership for Hadoop and SQL-on-Hadoop projects (Apache Drill, Hive, Impala), bringing deep expertise in data infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized execution models. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and a technical lead, he blends platform architecture with practical automation to drive reliability at scale. An NC State computer science master’s graduate, he is notable for translating complex, privacy-sensitive data requirements into production-ready, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
SBOA
Master's, Computer science, Master's, Computer science at North Carolina State University
Anna University, Chennai
DAV
Hindi, Tamil