Shrikanth Shankar

VP of Engineering

Los Altos, California, United States25 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in enterprise scale server design.
Strong background in databases and data mining.
Proven leadership in technical and product management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data analytics and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

DatabasesTechnical LeadershipData AnalyticsCloud ComputingBusiness IntelligenceDatabase Management

Other Skills

AnalyticsAnalytics PlatformAzkabanBI featuresData MiningData WarehousingDistributed SystemsEnterprise SoftwareHadoopHadoop integrationHiveInterval partitioningMySQLOBIEEOLTP databases

About

Experience in enterprise scale server design. Very familiar with databases. Good knowledge of data mining algorithms. Specialties: Databases, Data Mining, Text Mining, High Availability

Experience

25 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Databricks

Sr. Director

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Facebook

Director Of Engineering

Jul 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

I support the teams that build and operate the OLTP databases that power Facebook's online data stack. This includes storage for Facebook's social graph and many other use cases that require low latency access to 'small' data. Teams/technologies include RocksDB, ZippyDB, and MySQL.

OLTP databaseslow latency accessRocksDBZippyDBMySQLDatabases+1

Director

Aug 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Lead the Analytics Platform team at LinkedIn. This included our development teams supporting open source systems like Hadoop, Spark, Presto and internally developed software like Pinot, Azkaban, our metrics platform etc.

Analytics PlatformHadoopSparkPrestoPinotAzkaban+2

None

exploring startup ideas

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos

Qubole

VP Engineering

Nov 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

data, analytics, cloud

dataanalyticscloudCloud ComputingData Analytics

Oracle

5 roles

Director of Development

Promoted

May 2010 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

Technical and people leadership on Oracle Exalytics and OBIEE in-memory efforts.
Additionally lead development of many other BI features including Hadoop integration, better diagnosability for memory leaks/crashes, and Oracle Fusion support.

Oracle ExalyticsOBIEEHadoop integrationBI featuresBusiness IntelligenceTechnical Leadership

Consulting Member of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jan 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Managed the partitioning team and lead development on features including Interval partitioning, Segment creation on demand, and Online schema changes.
Spent a year investigating and prototyping future projects including ILM, Parallel Query/RAC scalability, Hadoop integration, and integration with R

partitioningInterval partitioningHadoop integrationR integrationDatabase ManagementTechnical Leadership