Sankar Hariappan

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Big Data and cloud technologies.
Leader in building self-sustaining engineering teams.
Accomplished contributor to Apache Hive open-source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and Cloud Computing expert with strong database system capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipPeople ManagementBig DataCloud TechnologiesDatabase Systems

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApache HadoopApache HiveArchitecture DesignCC++Cloud ArchitectureCoachingCore JavaData MigrationData StructuresDatabasesDistributed SystemsEmbedded Databases

About

A Software Engineering Leader in Big-data and cloud technologies with experience in defining technical road-map for Big-data platforms and build self sustaining team. Also, an accomplished Software Engineer specialized in Apache Hive and In-Memory Database Softwares with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software development including requirement definition, prototyping, proof of concept, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Group Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs

CoachingPeople ManagementLeadership

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Engineering leadership in Azure HDInsight which is an Azure based Apache Hadoop distribution with support for modern analytics/streaming engines such as Apache Hive, Spark, HBase, Kafka and so on. I'm responsible to build reliable, highly available and cloud scale architecture for Enterprise ready Azure Big Data platforms. I'm also responsible to hire, groom and retain top talents in the team. Our team includes Committers/PMC members in top level Open Source projects such as Apache Hadoop, Hive, HBase etc and we are active contributors to all these projects.

Apache HadoopApache HiveSparkHBaseKafkaCloud Architecture+3

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2020 – Aug 2020 · 7 mos

Build/manage engineering team, define technical roadmap and architecture for Microsoft Azure Big Data Platforms.

Technical RoadmapArchitecture DesignBig DataCloud Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 mo

Senior Engineer for Hive service in Microsoft Azure HDInsight platform.

Cloudera

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Nov 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Active Contributor and Core Developer in Apache Hive Open-Source Project.
Senior developer of Hive-Warehouse Connector project that helps to access Hive managed tables from Apache Spark with support for security and governance. It integrates the best of Hive LLAP and Spark SQL engines to read and write into Hive tables.

Hortonworks

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Active Contributor and Core Developer in Apache Hive Open-Source Project.
Senior developer of Hive replication and Transaction subsystems.

Apache HiveSparkSecurityGovernanceBig Data

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Active Contributor and Core Developer in Apache Hive Open-Source Project.
Senior developer of Hive replication feature that helps to migrate data from on-premises to Cloud store (S3, WASB) and also across Hadoop clusters.

Apache HiveReplicationTransaction SystemsBig Data

The apache software foundation

2 roles

Apache Hive Committer

Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

Committer Privileges to Apache Hive Open-Source Project

Apache Hive Contributor

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

Active contributor to Apache Hive Open-Source Project

Huawei technologies india

5 roles

System Architect

Jul 2016 – Jan 2017 · 6 mos

System Architect for In-Memory OLTP and OLAP Databases.
Built next generation in-memory OLAP database systems using Google’s Supersonic Engine. Designed and developed NUMA aware Algorithms, SIMD Vectorization, Intra-query Parallelism techniques.

Apache HiveData MigrationBig Data

Senior Technical Lead

Promoted

Aug 2012 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Senior Technical Lead for In-Memory OLAP Database.
Involved in research and development of next generation In-memory OLAP database systems. Key research topics are NUMA aware algorithms for Data shuffling, Sorting, GroupBy, Join and TopN operations. Also, experimented memory access latency in NUMA hardwares and applied the learning into new design.

In-Memory OLTPOLAP DatabasesNUMA AlgorithmsDatabase Systems

Technical Project Lead

Jul 2010 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Technical Project Lead for Embedded In-Memory OLTP Database.
Designed and developed Low Memory Footprint and High Performance Embedded database systems for Telco products.

In-Memory OLAP DatabasesNUMA AlgorithmsDatabase Systems