Suresh Srinivas
Co-Founder & CEO at The Apache Software Foundation
Saratoga, California, United States
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Top SchoolSuresh Srinivas is a founder and seasoned data architect based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building and scaling data platforms. He is a committer on OpenMetadata and Hadoop and previously served as co-founder of Hortonworks and Chief Architect for data at Uber, combining entrepreneurial vision with deep technical leadership. His recent open-source contributions focus on improving API documentation, Java backend refactors, and metadata ownership semantics for the widely used OpenMetadata project, reflecting a strong attention to developer experience and data governance. Suresh is passionate about improving data usability and the end-to-end data experience, routinely translating complex lineage and governance needs into practical platform features. He blends hands-on backend engineering with product-minded design, often spotting usability gaps that lead to cleaner APIs and clearer metadata models.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Electronics and Communication, Engineering Electronics and Communication at National Institute of Technology Karnataka/KREC
Github Skills (8)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
api-documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-metadata/OpenMetadata
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column level lineage, and seamless team collaboration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 374 reviews, 439 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Suresh's commits focus on improving the API documentation for the OpenMetadata project. They made changes to the Java code, specifically within the `TableResource.java` and `TagResource.java` files, updating API annotations and descriptions. The user also addressed naming conventions. The user further refactored code related to setting and retrieving the owner for a database.
pythondatadata-observabilitycollaboratedata-catalog
sureshms/incubator-storm
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
javastormapache-stormapache
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