Suraj Waghulde
Senior Staff Engineer at Zeta Global
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSuraj Waghulde is a Senior Staff Engineer based in San Jose with 14+ years building high-throughput, low-latency data and ML infrastructure for companies from startups to Apple and Intuit. He architects cloud-native, real-time featurization and ingestion platforms that power large-scale personalization, networking analytics, and production ML—often solving bottlenecks to enable horizontal scalability and stateful real-time models. His hands-on expertise spans distributed systems, storage engines, streaming (Flink/Kafka/Storm), and big data stacks (HBase, Hive, Spark), and he has a strong background in JVM/C++ performance engineering and algorithmic problem solving. As a founder at TickerRank and senior lead at HoneyCombData and Nile, he delivered systems that handled billions of aggregates per day and innovated in persistent-memory storage and prefix-index optimizations. He also has a competitive programming pedigree and research presence, signaling rare depth across theory, systems design, and production delivery.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasComputer Science, Computer Science at NCST JuhuBachelor of Computer Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Engineering Computer Science at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (2)
storm7
goodies6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
surajwaghulde/fun-code
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 2 months
surajwaghulde/storm-example-projects
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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