Supun Kamburugamuve
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSupun Kamburugamuve is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in high-performance and distributed data analytics, and he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Systems. He has led research-to-production efforts—creating Twister2 and co-creating Cylon at Indiana University—to bridge HPC and big-data workflows, and co-authored the book Foundations of Data Intensive Applications. A long-standing Apache Software Foundation member, Supun has moved from academic leadership into industry roles driving GPU-accelerated SQL at Voltron Data and now contributes to performance-focused engineering at NVIDIA. His background blends rigorous peer-reviewed research (30+ papers, 1000+ citations) with hands-on product delivery and team leadership. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of deep systems research, open-source stewardship, and practical experience optimizing distributed analytics for modern hardware.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (138)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
supunkamburugamuve/twister2
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Twister2 Big Data Hosting Environment: A composable framework for high-performance data analytics
Contributions:780 pushes, 86 branches in 1 year 3 months
hostingstream-processinganalyticsdata-analyticssql
applyhhj/iotcloud2
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:239 commits in 6 months
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