Nagarjuna Kanamarlapudi

Engineering Manager

Fremont, California, United States15 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 12 years of software engineering experience.
Led innovative data privacy solutions at LinkedIn.
Expert in building scalable data systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Data Engineering expert with a strong focus on metadata and data governance.

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Skills

Core Skills

MetadataDatahubData LineageHadoopData WarehousingData Engineering

Other Skills

Graph DatabasesSearchKafkaSamzaSparkOracleAmazon RedShiftHDFSMapReduceHiveApache PigHBaseCore JavaServletsTeradata

About

As an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, I lead a team of talented engineers who work on DataHub, a metadata platform that powers data discovery, governance, compliance, and analytics. I have over 12 years of software engineering experience, including working at Amazon as a Data Engineer and developing innovative data privacy and metadata solutions at LinkedIn. I have strong skills in SQL, Java, and Hadoop eco systems. I am passionate about building scalable, reliable, secure data systems that enable data-driven decision-making and insights. I value collaboration, diversity, and learning, and I strive to empower my team and foster a culture of excellence and innovation.

Experience

15 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs

Current Experience

6 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

1. Led the Metadata Consistency Program: Developed an approach to seamlessly integrate with data systems through metadata plugins, ensuring data consistency and quality. This initiative was crucial for aligning with privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and DMA.
2. Techlead of the Data Lineage Program: Responsible for capturing data lineage across LinkedIn’s data assets. This enabled multiple engineers within the company to gain valuable insights into data flow and evaluate the impact of changes in their data pipelines.
3. Contributor to the DataHub Open Source Project: Actively participated in the DataHub project, fostering collaboration and innovation in the open-source community.

MetadataDataHubGraph DatabasesSearchData Lineage

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Data privacy, metadata

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2017 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Enabling a platform WIMD (Where Is My Data) to track the status of the dataset, health of the dataset. Ensure such a platform is widely adopted across different platforms of LinkedIn.
Kafka, Samza, Hadoop, Play, Ember, are some key stacks used in this project.

Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2016 – Mar 2017 · 3 mos

Enabling a Unified Metrics Platform to let analysts and data scientists define metrics. The platform computes the metrics and pushes the same to different visualization layers to ensure a uniform data experience.
Hadoop, Spark, Zoo Keeper, Rest, play, ember are some key technology stacks used

Data Engineer

Mar 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

Data quality frame work.
etl and data modelling on Hadoop stack, scaling petabytes of data at LinkedIn.

Amazon

Data Engineer

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

1. Data Migration Specialist:
Successfully migrated data across Oracle and Amazon RedShift, ensuring seamless transfer without compromising information.
Designed efficient pipelines in RedShift for handling big data.
Developed automation tools using the Spring framework to streamline data processes.
2. Tackled an open-ended challenge: correcting Amazon’s popular offer dataset in the data warehouse.
3. Played a pivotal role in technology selection, optimizing runtimes from several days to just 30 minutes by migrating from Hadoop to RedShift.

Virtusa

Software Engineer

Jul 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

Integrated Metric System (IMS) revolutionized the existing book database by replacing it with HDFS and a compute system around it, significantly improving query response times. Collaborated with a leading Business Analytics Service provider to achieve this milestone.