Thanigai Vellore

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States25 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable B2C e-commerce systems.
  • Strong focus on architecture and distributed systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-commerce Architect with extensive experience in cloud and big data technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingBig DataE-commerceArchitectureData AnalyticsSearch TechnologiesWeb Development

Other Skills

Cloud Native PlatformsData PlatformsAI/MLSREPerformance EngineeringCloudDistributed SystemsMicroservicesSparkHadoopClickstream AnalyticsApache FlumeApache CrunchApache OozieHive

About

- Engineering leader with 20+ years of progressive experience specializing in building large, highly scalable systems. - Extensive hands-on experience in building high-traffic B2C e-commerce, web, cloud and big data architectures. - Hands-on technologist and leader with strong focus on architecture, distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, performance and extensibility. - High-output oriented, ambitious, strategic practical thinker with excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Experience

25 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Expedia group

VP of Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Fanatics, inc.

3 roles

VP of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Leading Platform Engineering at Fanatics
  • Cloud - Compute Infra, Cloud Native Platforms
  • Developer - Developer Foundations, Infrastructure & Platforms
  • Data - Storage Infra, Data Platforms (Streaming, Big Data, BI, AI/ML), Data Governance & Privacy
  • Reliability - SRE, Performance Engineering, DBA and Incident Management
Cloud ComputingCloud Native PlatformsData PlatformsBig DataAI/MLSRE+1

Head of Architecture and Platforms

Promoted

Sep 2022Apr 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. Director of Engineering

Dec 2015Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Responsible for architecting and building high performance, resilient, multi-tenant e-commerce platform in the public cloud
  • Own and drive end-to-end architecture decisions including solutions, systems, infrastructure and deployment architecture for the e-commerce platform
  • Built scalable, reliable and fault tolerant micro services and distributed platforms that thrive in an eventual consistency world
  • Hands-on experience building and scaling data platforms on top of distributed systems like Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, Druid, etc
E-commerceArchitectureCloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices

Vation ventures

Advisor - Innovation Council

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Airbnb

Engineering Leadership

Oct 2019Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Gap inc.

Principal Architect

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead architect responsible for defining and driving the technology roadmap initiatives for building the next generation micro-services based ecommerce platform in the cloud

Art.com

3 roles

Director of Architecture

Jan 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Tech lead on the art.com labs initiative to transform innovative concepts/ideas to working scalable products
  • Led the design, development and production roll-out of a large scale stream processing engine to compute trend aggregations on clickstream data using Spark (Spark Streaming)
  • Implemented an end-to-end clickstream analytics platform on Hadoop using Apache Flume, Apache Crunch, Apache Oozie, Hive and Impala

Sr. Software Architect

Jan 2012Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led the design and implementation of “Near Real Time” Semantic Search Indexing pipeline using HBase, Lily HBase Indexer, SolrCloud
  • Researched and developed a distributed visual search engine which supports multi-color search/harmonization, semantic clustering, visual similarity, etc
  • Evaluated, adopted and evangelized new technologies and frameworks and seamlessly integrated them into the enterprise stack.
  • Defined and implemented the cloud infrastructure for development and production environments for Big Data stack in AWS public cloud
  • Designed and developed a framework for building RESTful API services with support for configuration management, logging, caching, data access and unit testing
  • Developed a self-directed graph database (in neo4j) and RESTful service for capturing various user interests and relationships.
SparkHadoopClickstream AnalyticsBig DataData Analytics

Software Architect

Jul 2006Dec 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Led a massive website re-architecture project that involved retiring several legacy systems to create a scalable multi-tenant e-commerce website platform.
  • Provided architectural mentorship and guidance in developing the web-services framework based on .NET WCF with support for REST and SOAP services, unit testing (Nunit), mocking (Rhino Mocks), data service (entity framework), LINQ, configuration management, aspect orientation (Postsharp), dependency injection (Castle Windsor), logging and continuous integration (Jenkins).
  • Retired legacy SQL full-text based search and headed a multi-year project in the implementation of parametric search using Endeca on 3 websites (Art.com, Allposters.com and ArtistRising.com).
  • Designed a scalable event-driven framework for automated keyword generation service for SEM, currently supporting more than 100 billion keywords and 50 geo-targets.
HBaseSolrCloudRESTful APIBig DataSearch Technologies

Allposters.com

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Oct 2004Jun 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos · Emeryville, CA

  • Designed and developed several end-to-end features of the website (multi-language support, cross-selling module, gallery page redesign, etc.) in ASP.NET webforms.
  • Lead developer on the migration of a legacy CRM application (VB6) to a .NET 2.0 based application, using composite UI application blocks, supporting complex interfaces made of loosely coupled components.
  • Developed web based reporting tools for affiliate extranet systems using n-tier design using ASP.NET, ASMX web services and SQL server.
ASP.NETSQL ServerEvent-driven FrameworkWeb DevelopmentArchitecture

Sanmina-sci

2 roles

Sr. Software Engineer

Jul 2002Oct 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Headed the design and development of an integrated shop floor control system using ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, Visual C# .NET, Web Services.
  • Developed a web based system using ASP.NET 1.1 for real time workflow tracking and monitoring of defect levels through standardized quality metrics.
  • Studied and developed the functional specifications for a production monitoring system for monitoring the performance of equipment and assembly lines through vendor-independent CAMX (Computer Aided Manufacturing using XML using SOAP message broker) interface standards.
  • Developed a web based reporting tool (using ASP.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services) for sharing consolidated as well as detailed reports on production, equipment and capacity utilization metrics
ASP.NETSQL ServerWeb Development

Research Associate

Jul 2001Jul 2002 · 1 yr

  • Developed a web based quality reporting system in ASP.NET with a multi-dimensional OLAP database backend for viewing reports on defects, FPY, DPU and SPC charts.
  • Developed .NET windows services for creating real time closed loop process control on feedback from inline AOI and AXI inspection equipment on ‘out-of-control’ conditions
  • Developed a windows-forms based system using VB.NET and SQL Stored Procedures to automate the process of comparing BOMs and preparation of material assessment reports.
ASP.NETSQL ServerWeb Development

Flextronics

Research Asscociate

Aug 2000Jun 2001 · 10 mos

  • Developed a centralized document management tool using ASP and SQL Server Stored Procedures for online availability of documents like process instructions, ECOs, process deviations, and visual aids
  • Developed a generic decision support tool in Visual Basic to serve as a guide to carry out the qualification experiments.
ASP.NETWeb Development

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

High Impact Leadership

Jan 2017Jan 2017

Binghamton University

MS — Industrial Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2002

University of Madras

BS — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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