Vinitha Gankidi
Senior Engineering Manager at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinitha Gankidi is a Senior Engineering Manager in Sunnyvale with 10 years of experience building the infrastructure that powers AI and analytics at scale. At Apple she leads GenAI platform efforts for embeddings, feature management, inference, and evaluation, and previously launched a cloud-agnostic Lakehouse with Kubernetes-based compute and petabyte-scale interactive analytics. Her background includes designing exabyte-scale data platforms at Netflix and scaling HDFS and recommendation-system infrastructure at LinkedIn, grounded in research on distributed indexing and query optimization from UW–Madison. She excels at turning 0→1 initiatives into resilient, governance-aware platforms that enable enterprise-wide AI adoption, and she brings hands-on experience shipping performance, cost, and security improvements across large organizations. An often-overlooked strength is her mix of academic rigor and production engineering—patented research has influenced the systems she later operationalized.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBTech, Computer Science, BTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Github Skills (43)
apache-spark10
sql-query10
spark10
python10
data-science10
r10
apache-hadoop10
databases10
big-data10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
apache10
indexing10
jdbc10
analytics10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vgankidi/spark
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
vgankidi/incubator-iceberg
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Apache Iceberg (Incubating)
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
incubatingapache-icebergapachebig-datajava
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