Somu Rajarathinam
Principal Solution Architect at Oracle
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolSomu Rajarathinam is a Principal Solution Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and tuning mission-critical databases, real-time replication, log analytics, and data warehouse platforms. Based in Fremont, CA, he has led high-impact technical roles at Oracle and Pure Storage, architecting scalable solutions for Splunk, Kafka, Snowflake and major RDBMSs while validating them through rigorous performance testing and automation. He combines deep Oracle database internals and performance-forensics expertise with cloud-native practice across AWS, containers, and all-flash storage to deliver SaaS and IaaS solutions for latency-sensitive workloads. Known for translating complex infrastructure constraints into simple, repeatable reference architectures and whitepapers, he has also presented at industry conferences and driven customer-facing enablement. A proven leader in capacity planning, benchmarks, and operational excellence, Somu bridges product engineering and customer success to reduce cost and risk at scale. His uncommon strength is pairing low-level performance diagnosis with pragmatic runbook-driven operations that accelerate adoption of emerging data platforms.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CIO Development Program, CIO Development Program at San Francisco State UniversityB.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at Madura College, IndiaMCA, Computer Applications, First class with distinction, MCA, Computer Applications, First class with distinction at Madurai Kamaraj University
Github Skills (27)
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s3-bucket9
apache-kafka8
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scala8
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parallel7
aws-s37
openstack-swift7
cloud-storage7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rsomu/oracle-cloning-scripts
May 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
rsomu/objsync
Oct 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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