Sashikanth Damaraju
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSashikanth Damaraju is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable data infrastructure and full-stack systems, currently working on AI/ML data engineering at Apple in San Francisco. He blends a research background (PhD-level work) in visualization, interaction and Big Data with hands-on delivery—designing crawlers that harvest web data from millions of domains and operating distributed pipelines using Kafka, Storm, Spark and cloud services. At startups he has owned end-to-end systems from acquisition to storage and processing, and at larger firms like LinkedIn and Apple he focuses on production-grade data platforms for AI. He also develops interaction techniques (e.g., Multi-tap Sliders) to make complex parameter tuning accessible for expert users, reflecting a persistent interest in reducing friction between domain experts and technology. Notably, his career spans both HCI research and heavy back-end systems, enabling him to translate human-centered insights into robust, scalable engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (6)
backend4
docker-image3
docker2
mesosphere2
redis2
spark2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zillabyte/slate
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 3 months
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