Sushanth Sowmyan
Engineering Manager at Mechanical Orchard
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSushanth Sowmyan is an engineering manager and founder with 16 years of experience building and scaling big data platforms, distributed databases, and AI/data platform backends. He has led full product lifecycles from prototype to legacy support, notably contributing core replication features to Apache Hive and driving metastore and replication architecture at Hortonworks. As an architect and principal engineer at Zillow, he designed data contracts, centralized core data platforms, and advanced governance and CCPA compliance to enable decentralized teams and self-service data. He combines hands-on technical leadership with mentorship and cross-team alignment, having coached engineers, taught internal Scala courses, and advocated for inclusivity and accessibility. Currently bootstrapping a startup focused on ethical AI/NLP, he brings practical bias-mitigation work—data augmentation via coreference balancing—and a strong opinion on data quality and lineage. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends deep systems expertise with a founder’s product sensibility and a quiet love of “clickety-clacker” tinkering evident in his GitHub contributions.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
database-replication10
back-end-development10
metastore10
apache-hive10
java10
sql8
testing7
thrift7
hive6
hadoop6
apache6
hcatalog6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:191 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sushanth contributed to the core functionality of Apache Hive, focusing on the implementation of key features and enhancements related to database replication. They were involved in the development and refinement of replication tasks, including those for create/drop table and partition events, by modifying core classes like ReplicationTask and addressing issues. This involved adding support for new event types within the replication framework. Their work also included preparing for the 1.3.0 development cycle by updating schema files.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
teakettlelabs/teakettlelabs.github.io
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches, 10 tags in 2 years 7 months
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