Prasanth J

Co-Founder

San Mateo, California, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in big data analysis and distributed systems.
Co-Founder of innovative AI analytics startup.
Significant contributions to Apache Hive and ORC projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and Cloud Computing expert with strong open-source contributions.

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Skills

Other Skills

RubyJavaMapReduceCHadoopC++ScalabilityEmbedded LinuxShell ScriptingSQLApache PigBig DataData StructuresPigJavaScript

About

Currently working on metadata management system at Apple. Prior to that was working on improving the performance of Apache Hive and making it as a cloud service at Hortonworks/Cloudera. I graduated from Ohio State University with Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering where I worked on large scale data analysis research under Prof. Arnab Nandi. I was also Google Summer of Code 2012 student where I worked on providing CUBE operation support in Apache Pig. Specialties: Big data analysis,interaction and exploration, large scale distributed systems

Experience

Isotopes ai

Co-Founder

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Apple

Software Engineer (ICT5)

Sep 2021 – Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

Cloudera

Principal Software Engineer I

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara, California

Bootstrapped, architected and implemented several key features in Cloudera Data Warehouse for public cloud.

Hortonworks

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Focussing on Apache Hive performance (specifically on LLAP).

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – May 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Working on improving the performance of Apache Hive. More specifically on ORCFile and statistics for Cost Based Optimizer.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

Worked in Hive/Pig/HCat team.

The apache software foundation

2 roles

Apache ORC PMC Member and Committer

Apr 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 11 mos

Apache ORC is a high performance columnar storage for hadoop. I primarily focus on improving the performance of the file format.

Apache Hive PMC Member and Committer

Apr 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

Department of computer science and engineering, the ohio state university, columbus

3 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Advanced Database Management Systems

Promoted

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos

I assisted Prof.Arnab Nandi with grading, setting up assignments, teaching (specific topics) and project evaluation.

Graduate Teaching Assistant: Data Structures Using Java

Jan 2013 – May 2013 · 4 mos

I assisted Prof.Naeem Shareef with grading assignments, closed labs and projects.

Graduate Research Assistant

Jun 2012 – Dec 2012 · 6 mos

Big data analytics, large scale data exploration, distributed cubing research.

Google summer of code

Student Developer

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
I worked on implementing OLAP Cube operations support for Apache Pig. Project related JIRAs
PIG-2167: CUBE operation in Pig
PIG-2710: Naive CUBE operator implementation
PIG-2726: Handling legitimate NULL values
PIG-2765: Implementing RollupDimensions UDF and adding ROLLUP clause in CUBE operator
PIG-2814: Fix issues with documentation
PIG-2831: MR-Cube implementation (Distributed cubing for holistic measures)

Accad, the ohio state university

Graduate Assistant

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos

Worked on real time data stream transfer using VRPN.

The ohio state university

Web Development Intern

Nov 2011 – Mar 2012 · 4 mos · OSUMC

Worked on web application development using Ruby on Rails.

Samsung india software center

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2008 – Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Worked on XQuery query generation module in DLNA Digital Media Controller stack.
Worked on event subscription and notification service module in DLNA stack.
Worked on optimizing native platform graphics rendering for DTVs using SDL.
Worked on Lua-SDL wrapper implementation using SWIG.
Implemented a Mind Map application using LuaSDL for DTVs.
Worked on improving runtime performance of Lua script on ARM using LLVM-Lua.
Implemented a mechanism for flushing the Instruction Cache, required for Just-In-Time interpretation of LLVM byte code using ARM assembly language.

Sap labs, bangalore

Intern

Jan 2008 – Jun 2008 · 5 mos

Integrated Jetty web/application server into SAP Netweaver development environment and developed a eclipse plug-in for managing the lifecycle of the server.