Summary
Ravi Meka is a hands-on software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and metadata systems that power production analytics and serving use cases. Currently directing engineering for autonomous-vehicle data platforms at Aurora, he has led cross-functional teams at 1upHealth, Twitter, Pinterest, and Yahoo to deliver robust ingestion, processing, and orchestration infrastructure. Ravi combines deep technical expertise in real-time event processing and big-data pipelines with a track record of scaling teams and systems to meet critical company objectives. He has repeatedly transitioned legacy systems into modern SaaS and cloud-native data platforms, notably enabling healthcare interoperability and enterprise-grade metadata capabilities. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and grounded in an MS in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strategic product impact—often focusing on the metadata and orchestration layers that are easy to overlook but essential for scale.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University