Bhargav Donga

Software Engineer

San Diego, California, United States12 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable Big Data platforms.
Experience with the world's largest Data Lake.
Proficient in Apache Spark and AWS services.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data Engineer with extensive experience in cloud-based data solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataApache SparkCloud ComputingData EngineeringData Streaming

Other Skills

AWS servicesBigData platformsEMR serviceCluster startupSoftware installationHadoopHiveApache KafkaMongoDBOozieApache ZooKeeperApache PigParallel ComputingSoftware DevelopmentJava Enterprise Edition

About

I build platforms that truly scale at Exabytes(>1000 Petabytes) size. Organically grown in BigData eco-system. Currently working on probably world's largest Data Lake. Always curious and like to Hack, Break and Fix stuff.

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Intuit

Principal Engineer

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Nov 2025 · 7 yrs · San Diego County, California, United States

Worked extensively on building BigData platforms that process Petabytes of data every day.
Worked on Platform to allow engineers to query Exabytes of data in the Apache Spark clusters for analytics purpose.
Worked extensively with Apache Spark and AWS services to enable auto-scaled Apache Spark clusters that processes huge amount of data per hour.

Apache SparkAWS servicesBigData platformsBig Data

Amazon web services

Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Worked on EMR service to improve the performance and efficiency of cluster startup and software installation.
Worked on public features such as cluster reconfigurations for running clusters.

EMR serviceCluster startupSoftware installationBig DataCloud Computing

Paypal

BigData Engineer

Dec 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked extensively on Big Data technologies like Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive
Built DataLake to support analytics on the transactional data.
Worked on the Spark framework to support read and write to multiple technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, Hbase and HDFS with little configurations which later became open source https://github.com/paypal/gimel

Apache SparkHadoopHiveBig DataData Engineering

Taqtile

Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Oct 2015 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

I am part of Analytics team which works on Apache Kafka to process data for high traffic application. We built production Apache Kafka cluster from scratch and transferred traffic from existing MongoDB to Apache Kafka cluster.

Apache KafkaMongoDBData StreamingBig Data

California state university, fullerton

IT Assistant

Jan 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

Maintaining several university domains and websites. Work closely with streaming servers and publishing servers. I helped fixing Faculty/Staff's computers and troubleshoot any problem related to technology.

Flightnetwork.com

Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Ahmedabad Area

I was part of the team which was responsible to develop and maintain search engine for flights. We closely work with database server and caching servers and write code to improve efficiency of the search engine. I was also responsible to handle one of the live server and maintaining Main branch of Git repository.