Sarath Subramanian is an engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building large-scale distributed systems for data governance, analytics, and metadata management. He has led teams at Apple and Cloudera and contributed as a long-standing committer and PMC member to Apache Atlas, where his code advanced lineage REST APIs and metadata integration across Hadoop ecosystems. His strengths combine deep data-mining and visualization knowledge with a practical focus on reliability, security, and high availability in enterprise software. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping backend code, he has moved between hands-on engineering and management roles while influencing open-source metadata standards. His background—MS in Computer Science and early research and industry roles at IBM and Hortonworks—underscores a strong foundation in scalable data platforms and governance.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
Apache Atlas - Open Metadata Management and Governance capabilities across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 384 commits, 37 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sarath's commits focus on implementing and refining the Lineage REST API, specifically targeting version 2. This work included modifications to the lineage service tests and restructuring API implementations to leverage the new TypesREST API. The commits also involved code modifications within the webapp to facilitate these updates, including integrating new API versions and adjusting functionalities. Further commits included fixing a null dereference and updating the metadata namespace.
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