Vivek Subramanian
Founding Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivek Subramanian is a founding engineer and seasoned backend-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and AI products from startup prototypes to production systems. Based in San Jose, he currently leads development of Aidnn at Isotopes AI, an agentic AI analytics platform aimed at making data-driven decisions more accessible. He brings deep distributed-systems and storage expertise from active, long-running Apache contributions—particularly to Ozone and Hadoop—and has improved S3 tooling, configuration, and operational UX in those projects. Vivek pairs that systems-level background with full-stack and test automation experience (Ambari, Vega-Lite), enabling him to bridge tooling, observability, and product needs. A serial early employee/founder who shipped at Apple, Cloudera and multiple startups, he blends pragmatic product instincts with open-source stewardship as an Ozone PMC and Hadoop committer. Colleagues would note his tendency to tackle gritty config and API edge cases that quietly improve reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at College of Engineering, GuindyMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (43)
api-rest10
javascript10
visualization10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
apache-hadoop10
configuration-management10
big-data10
object-storage10
metadata10
java10
javas10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ozone
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 reviews, 91 commits, 120 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Vivek's commits primarily focus on modifying and improving the configuration settings within the Apache Ozone codebase. They have addressed issues in the OM/SCM UI configuration display and enhanced the handling of S3 secrets in unsecured clusters. The user has also created an S3 subcommand to run S3 related operations, along with the fix to the SCM CLI not listing containers with ID 1. The commits suggest a focus on improving functionality, user experience, and security within the object storage system.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
open-metadata/OpenMetadata
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column level lineage, and seamless team collaboration.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:498 reviews, 177 commits, 423 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily contributed to the back-end development of the OpenMetadata project. Their work focused on resolving issues related to the API, including fixes for service description editing and team type changes. They also worked on improving the functionality of Activity Feeds by implementing enhancements like supporting reactions and providing the ability to delete posts. Furthermore, the user addressed issues in the task management system, allowing for task reassignment and the inclusion of comments.
pythondatadata-observabilitycollaboratedata-catalog
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