Vijay Kiran
Co-Founder, Principal Programmer at Thoughtvine Solutions
Netherlands
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Top SchoolVijay Kiran is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 16 years of experience building data platforms and backend systems across startups and enterprises from Oracle to Soda. He blends hands-on engineering in Scala and Clojure with Big Data expertise—having led data teams and owned platforms for fraud detection, ML squads, and data quality at companies like ING, Payvision, and Soda. As Lead Data Engineer at Soda he contributed to soda-core, improving data quality testing across SQL, Spark and Pandas and integrating cloud-related fixes for important connectors. His Executive MBA complements a strong technical pedigree, enabling him to align engineering choices with business outcomes while running his own consultancy, Thoughtvine. Off-hours he co-hosts a Clojure podcast, reflecting a deep commitment to the functional programming community and continuous learning.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Counseling Psychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Counseling Psychology at The Open UniversityExecutive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus UniversityB.Tech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, B.Tech Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Acharya Nagarjuna University
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Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
data-quality10
python10
data-engineering10
testing10
java10
javas10
snowflake9
postgresql9
bigquery9
aws-redshift9
testng9
junit9
amazon-redshift9
dbt8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sodadata/soda-core
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
:zap: Data quality testing for the modern data stack (SQL, Spark, and Pandas) https://www.soda.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 releases, 320 reviews, 141 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Vijay's contributions primarily involve updating and maintaining the Soda Core codebase, focusing on data quality testing. They made changes to several setup files, updating package versions across various modules related to database connectors (Redshift, Postgres, Snowflake, Bigquery) and core functionalities. Further contributions include cloud-related fixes, specifically addressing issues with scan results, metrics, and handling unsupported features within the cloud integration. The commits demonstrate a focus on code maintenance, and integrating new features.
pythondata-observabilitydbtdata-integritymonitoring
jclouds/legacy-jclouds
Sep 2011 - Aug 2012
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:67 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vijay's commits focused on addressing upstream changes and integrating them into the existing codebase. They modified test files, particularly within the filesystem and EC2 APIs, to reflect these updates. The work included changes to unit tests and modifications to existing test classes demonstrating involvement in test maintenance and integration.
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