Sanjay Obla
Staff Software Engineer at Fivetran
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSanjay Obla is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable data infrastructure and scalable analytics platforms. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles at athenahealth and Oracle to senior positions at Instacart and now Fivetran, bringing deep expertise in big data systems, Apache Spark, and productionizing data pipelines. His background includes research-driven visualization work at Georgia Tech and practical data engineering internships at Akamai, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and production focus. Known for architecting resilient systems for high-volume data use cases, he excels at translating complex analytics requirements into maintainable, scalable platforms. Based in Old Toronto, he combines cross-border experience with an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a practical, systems-first approach to data engineering. A quieter strength is his history of moving between research and industry roles, which helps him bridge novel data visualization ideas into production-ready infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Saurashtra
Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (5)
sanjayobla/RailNetwork
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
anandsainath/constraint-layout
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 12 days
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