Shreepadma Venugopalan
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShreepadma Venugopalan is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and ML infrastructure, including HPC and runtime work. At Google she contributes to TensorFlow Runtime and Gmail storage infrastructure, combining low-level performance engineering with production-grade distributed systems design. Earlier roles include principal engineering on query compilation and execution at Oracle and performance work on Apache Hive and Impala at Cloudera, where she co-founded and led the Apache Sentry project through incubation. She has a strong open-source pedigree as a long-standing PMC member and first release manager for Sentry, demonstrating both technical leadership and community-building skills. Her background blends rigorous academic training (MS, University of Wisconsin–Madison) with hands-on systems optimization and release stewardship. Colleagues would point to her knack for turning complex performance challenges into maintainable, scalable infrastructure as a distinguishing strength.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School, High School at Vidya Mandir Sr Sec SchoolBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (13)
apache6
sentry5
java3
apache-hive3
database2
kafka2
spark2
latency2
hadoop2
hive2
low-latency1
llama1
big-data1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
apache/incubator-sentry
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
Mirror of Apache Sentry
Contributions:20 commits in 5 months
sentryapache
CrazyBeeline/hive
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
Apache Hive
Contributions:53 commits in 7 months
flinkapachebig-datasparkdatabase
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