Vijay Parthasarathy
Managing Director, Firmwide Head Of AI Technologies at The Apache Software Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Parthasarathy is a seasoned AI and systems leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, databases, and production AI platforms across Apple, Meta, Netflix, and Zoom. Currently Managing Director and Firmwide Head of AI Technologies at JPMorgan Chase, he drives LLMs, agentic frameworks, and thousands of high-impact ML models that influence firmwide decisioning. He combines deep applied research and hands-on engineering—having been an Apache Cassandra committer and contributed stability and data-handling fixes to Netflix's Priam—while also founding an AI-driven travel startup. Known for assembling and scaling cross-disciplinary teams and shipping realtime, high-throughput ML infrastructure, he brings a rare blend of product impact, open-source pedigree, and operational rigor. Based in San Jose, he pairs an MS in Software Engineering and an MBA with a track record of solving hard consistency, concurrency, and deployment problems at internet scale.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electonics and Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electonics and Communication at Bharathiar UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business at San José State University
Github Skills (6)
javas10
distributed-systems10
back-end-development10
cassandra10
java10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/Priam
Feb 2012 - Jul 2012
Co-Process for backup/recovery, Token Management, and Centralized Configuration management for Cassandra.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vijay primarily focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the Priam codebase. Their contributions included fixing thread leaks, refactoring existing code, and addressing formatting issues. Further work involved implementing and configuring features related to hint windows and hinted handoff delays, suggesting a focus on improving data handling and distribution within the Cassandra cluster. They also made changes to include and update various configurations.
cassandraconfiguration-managementtokentoken-managementrestore
Netflix/CassJMeter
Oct 2011 - Jul 2012
JMeter plugin to run cassandra tests.
Contributions:35 commits in 9 months
gatlingperformance-analysiscassandrajmeterjmeter-plugin
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