Swinky Mann
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolSwinky Mann is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience specializing in big data and Spark internals, holding a Master’s from IIT Bombay. She has driven multi-fold Spark performance improvements and cost optimizations on Azure, including runtime filtering, inferred filter pushdowns, and native execution engine work that doubled TPCDS throughput in production scenarios. A hands-on leader, she built end-to-end tooling for performance benchmarking used by 100+ engineers and has a track record of resolving critical on-call incidents and customer-facing PoCs for major enterprises. Earlier roles include migrating analytic platforms to cloud data stacks and optimizing large-scale ETLs on EMR, where she also led GDPR-driven product design. Based in Bengaluru, she combines deep systems-level expertise with operational rigor and a penchant for uncovering subtle infrastructure inefficiencies (for example, isolating hidden CPU-hungry processes and misconfigured disks) that unlock real cost and performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, High School, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs at St. Margaret Sr. Sec. SchoolIndian Institute of Technology BombayEngineer's Degree, Computer Science, Engineer's Degree, Computer Science at INDIRA GANDHI DELHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
Github Skills (22)
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
r10
big-data10
hadoop10
vectorization10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
scala10
scale10
sql10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Swinky/spark
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
analyticsdata-processingapachebig-dataspark
Swinky/MTP
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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