Summary
Ravisha Neelakanthappa is a Senior Engineering Manager in Austin with 12+ years of professional experience and a deep 15+ year background in SQL database internals, including query optimization, cardinality estimation, and cost modeling. Currently leading work on advanced analytics and machine learning for the renewable energy and environment sector, she previously built and led solar analytics teams delivering real-time SCADA-driven insights for utility-scale PV plants. Her career spans database engineering roles at Informix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise—where she contributed to optimizer improvements, materialized views, and ML-driven workload classification (patent-pending work)—to leadership positions at Teradata and EnerMAN. Known for translating low-level database compiler expertise into production ML and analytics products, she combines systems-level rigor with practical product delivery across large-scale data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering at University BDT College of Engineering - India