Vinod C
Staff Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinod C is a Staff Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing, building, and shipping large-scale big data systems. He specializes in architecting and implementing Apache Spark and Kafka-based frameworks, translating real-time data needs into performant, secure, and scalable solutions. At Cloudera and now Databricks he has led engineering teams, mentored peers on Spark, and driven architecture decisions across medium-to-large platforms. An active open source contributor, his Spark work includes bug fixes and important documentation and stability patches that improved SQL shell and Hive/Avro interoperability. He pairs hands-on coding with a knack for clear technical proposals and performance tuning, and has formal training in machine learning from Stanford.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Sree Narayana College, KollamMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at AICT
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
big-data10
spark10
sql10
java10
scala10
documentation9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/spark
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 4 commits, 90 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vinod primarily contributed to bug fixes and documentation updates within the Apache Spark project. Their work involved resolving SQL console startup issues, addressing documentation errors in the Spark 1.3 release, and correcting a Spark shell crash related to Scala 2.11. Additionally, the user added documentation for various APIs and provided fixes to support writing to a Hive table using the Avro schema URL.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
vinodkc/spark
Apr 2017 - Apr 2025
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:9 PRs, 537 pushes, 100 branches in 8 years 1 month
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
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