Selvaganesan Govindarajan
Principal Software Engineer at Dremio
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSelvaganesan Govindarajan is a Principal Software Engineer with over 12 years in database systems and a multi-decade career shaping SQL execution engines, ODBC/JDBC drivers, and data loading/replication across OLTP and EDW products. He has driven deep platform work at companies from Hewlett Packard to Esgyn and now Dremio, contributing performance, memory, and high-availability improvements across projects such as Apache Trafodion and its enterprise derivatives. Skilled in C++, Java, JNI and SQL internals, he blends hands-on coding with customer-facing troubleshooting to resolve complex performance and memory issues. A pragmatic advocate of peer review and test-driven development, he consistently delivers enterprise-grade, maintainable solutions. Notably, his open-source commits to Trafodion replaced deprecated HBase APIs and optimized memory quotas, reflecting both long-term product stewardship and low-level systems expertise.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Madras
Github Skills (6)
performance-tuning10
javas10
memory-management10
apache10
java10
database-design9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafodion
Jun 2015 - May 2020
Apache Trafodion
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:518 commits, 228 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Selvaganesan's commits focus on refactoring and enhancing the code base of the Apache Trafodion project. Their contributions involve modifying existing Java code to remove deprecated HBase APIs and replace them with newer ones, which implies expertise in database interaction. They also improved the memory usage, including ensuring correct memory allocations, and streamlining the use of memory quota settings, reflecting a concern for system performance. These changes are aimed at optimizing the performance and maintainability of the Trafodion codebase.
dbmsapachebig-datasparknetwork-server
selvaganesang/trafodion
Jun 2015 - May 2020
Mirror of Apache Trafodion (Incubating)
Contributions:171 pushes, 171 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 11 months
javaincubatingapache
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