Summary
Tharun Sikhinam is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building data platforms and full-stack web applications, currently shaping data initiatives at Oracle in the Greater Seattle Area. He blends deep data engineering expertise—Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and BigQuery—with practical knowledge of SQL/NoSQL/graph stores like Neo4j and ElasticSearch to deliver scalable ETL and analytics solutions. Equally comfortable in the application layer, he has shipped React/Node.js products and instituted DevOps practices using Jenkins and Ansible to streamline CI/CD. His background includes designing real-time logistics and HR systems and automating deployments at scale, and he brings an educator’s clarity from developing a data science course at the University of Washington. Colleagues rely on him for bridging product needs and technical architecture, turning complex data requirements into maintainable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at RV College Of Engineering
CBSE - 12th, CBSE - 12th at National Public School