Venkata Sowrirajan
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVenkata Sowrirajan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, reliable distributed systems from the Bay Area. He currently builds production-grade infrastructure at LinkedIn after driving performance and serverless Spark innovations as a Staff Engineer at Qubole, including S3 Select integrations and Spark-on-Lambda prototypes that produced multi-fold query speedups. His background spans big-data platforms and real-time monitoring from MapR to contributions fixing Spark deadlocks and CBO estimation bugs in upstream open source. Comfortable across the stack, he has implemented autoscaling, HDFS capacity-aware scaling, and production troubleshooting while mentoring engineers and leading on-call responses. Known for turning research-grade ideas into pragmatic, measurable gains, he pairs strong systems intuition with hands-on optimization experience. Outside of core duties he’s demonstrated an appetite for experimental architectures—serverless executors and S3 pushdowns—that deliver tangible customer performance improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityAnna University, Chennai
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (14)
java9
hive8
parquet8
apache-drill8
jdbc8
sql8
database7
hadoop7
big-data7
apache-flink6
apache6
presto5
mpp3
scala2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vsowrirajan/Distiller
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:26 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
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