Siva Santhalingam
Principal Engineer at ORO Labs
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiva Santhalingam is a Principal Engineer based in California with a decade of experience building scalable analytics and streaming systems across startups and enterprise teams. He holds a Master’s in Software Engineering and has driven high-impact improvements—such as halving false positives in a Kafka-based user anomaly engine and cutting a data migration from 24–48 hours to 15 minutes. His background spans Kafka performance benchmarking, custom partitioning for stateful services, LMDB-backed persistent queues, and data obfuscation layers for privacy-aware search. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, Siva blends hands-on implementation with architectural leadership in cloud-native and microservice environments. He is an Apache Kafka learner/contributor with practical experience deploying Kafka/Zookeeper in containerized setups and optimizing producer/consumer patterns. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces operational fixes that materially improve system reliability and onboarding velocity.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Software Engineering, Master's Software Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (31)
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
producer10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
confluent9
confluent-cloud9
connect8
librdkafka8
spark8
confluent-kafka7
golang7
tensorflow7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shivsantham/Dockerized-Multi-Node-Kafka-Cluster
Sep 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
shivsantham/Apache-Kafka-Confluent-Evaluation
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Evaluating the kafka producer and consumer throughput
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
confluentconfluent-kafkaconsumer-threadconsumer-throughputconsuming-messages
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