Arun Thangamani Email & Phone Number

Arun is a Principle Distributed Systems Architect from Cloudera who has Authored/Implemented/ Optimized Big-Data Pipelines for many Fortune 500 firms like Apple, Microsoft, SAP, ADP, Fidelity, Expedia, Monsanto etc. Enterprise Big Data Pipelines typically 1) solve Analytics/Warehousing Challenges and 2) comprise of Streaming/Batch/Hybrid processing paradigms. Comprehending nuances of these Peta-Byte throughput pipelines and analyzing their data flow efficiencies needs in-depth architectural understanding of utilized frameworks/components. Arun’s unique ability to visualize pipeline data-flows horizontally (reducing, data-shuffling, broad-casting, transforming, caching, and partitioning) and vertically (application-requests, cache, page-cache, direct disk layer) helps design/untangle/unclog/optimize pipelines. Distributed Datasets, Map Reduce based Directed Acyclic Graph solutions, Distributed Stream Processing, Column Oriented storage, Dynamic Partitioned Rings, Machine Learning Algorithms and Spark/Hadoop ETL workflows are some of the topics within Arun’s area of interest/expertise. Arun’s expertise also includes SOA, enterprise security, distributed computing/caching, and scalable read/write behind caching architectures. Prior to Cloudera-Hortonworks, Arun spent about a decade with Monsanto, working on biotech research in Hadoop as well as various custom in-house distributed parallel processing/storage platforms. Other previous experience includes stints at ADP, Caliper and Yahoo and research work for NASA. Arun holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Alabama and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, India.

Listed skills include Soa, Big Data, Java Enterprise Edition, Object Oriented Design, and 16 others.