Karthik Ramasamy

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Head of Streaming at Databricks @ Databricks
160 Spear Street 13th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States
Karthik Ramasamy's Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States, United States
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About Karthik Ramasamy

More than 20 years of experience including being CPO of Big Data startup that got acquired by Twitter.Entrepreneurial, energetic executive and technologist with strong leadership skills. Extensive background in technology, engineering, product management and business development. Intimately familiar with trends and drivers in Big Data, Cloud Applications, Data Center and Network technologies.Strong technical background in Big Data, Hadoop, Cassandra, Parallel Database Systems, Network Routing and Switching, AWS. Very deep understanding including Map/Reduce, Real Time Streaming, Interactive Querying, Distributed Query Execution, Query Scheduling and Route Forwarding Algorithms.Author of the best selling book "Network Routing - Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures", several publications and ten patents in large scale data processing.If you are interested in learning more about Apache Storm, check out my online course at Udacity https://www.udacity.com/course/ud381I initiated and oversaw the development of Heron, the next generation of streaming system @Twitter. It was very well received due to its speed and consumption of less resources. Heron was positively received in the press Venturebeat - http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/02/twitter-details-heron-a-real-time-stream-processing-system-that-outperforms-storm/The Next Web -http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/02/twitter-unveils-heron-a-real-time-analytics-system-that-can-withstand-social-traffic-spikes/Tech Portal - http://thetechportal.in/2015/06/03/twitter-shifts-base-from-storm-to-a-newer-more-robust-real-time-analytics-platform-heron/Street Insider - http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Twitter+(TWTR)+Announces+New+Real-Time+Analytics+Platform%3A+Heron/10617943.htmlInfoq - http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/06/twitter-storm-heronMy talk at Facebook @scale -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUaFOuGgmco

Karthik Ramasamy's Current Company Details
Databricks

Databricks

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Head of Streaming at Databricks
160 Spear Street 13th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States
Website:
databricks.com
Employees:
51
Karthik Ramasamy Work Experience Details
  • Databricks
    Head Of Streaming
    Databricks Sep 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Uc Berkeley
    Faculty, Eecs Department
    Uc Berkeley Aug 2016 - Present
    Berkeley, Ca, Us
    Teaching part time at Berkeley, CS186 - Introduction to Database Systems for upper undergraduates. Hope to groom next generation data engineers.
  • Splunk
    Senior Director Of Engineering
    Splunk Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
    San Francisco, California, Us
  • Streamlio (Acquired By Splunk)
    Co-Founder And Ceo (Acquired By Splunk)
    Streamlio (Acquired By Splunk) Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
    Palo Alto, California, Us
  • Streamlio (Acquired By Splunk)
    Co-Founder And Chief Product Officer
    Streamlio (Acquired By Splunk) Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
    Palo Alto, California, Us
    Streamlio is engaged in building enterprise-grade next generation end to end streaming platforms and solutions.
  • Twitter
    Engineering Manager - Twitter Storm And Twitter Heron
    Twitter Aug 2013 - Mar 2017
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Managed the Twitter Storm team - the real time analytics engine used widely within and outside Twitter. After identifying several shortcomings of Storm, I initiated Heron, the next generation streaming system which is 10-15x higher in throughput, 10x reduction in latency and 3x reduction in capital costs and still backward compatible with Storm. I was involved in all aspects of Heron development and deployment - ranging from planning, architecture, product management, ease of use and coordinating with teams to migrate all the Storm jobs to Heron.
  • Locomatix
    Co-Founder And Chief Product Officer (Acquired By Twitter)
    Locomatix Jul 2007 - Jul 2013
    As a co-founder, I was responsible for fund raising, business development, product management and engineering and finally the acquisition by Twitter * Raised more than $1.3M in funding from National Science Foundation (NSF) and Angels and oversaw all the aspects of running the company. Developed the business by researching on several industry verticals, evaluating their market potential and identifying potential customers. Presented our solution to various customers, negotiated and closed deals. * Managed a team of eight, defined and helped the development of big data real time streaming engine over Cassandra and Hadoop. Further defined several analytics and mobile application to show case the engine. * Brought several companies for potential acquisition and finally completed the sale of company to Twitter.
  • Greenplum Inc
    Big Data Architect
    Greenplum Inc Apr 2007 - Jun 2007
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Worked with chief architect and other senior members of technical staff to put together the architecture for query scheduling for a large scale parallel data warehouse. Greenplum got acquired by EMC.
  • Juniper Networks
    Member Of Technical Staff
    Juniper Networks May 2002 - May 2006
    Designed and deployed several protocols and embedded databases at the kernel and application level which are shipping with JUNOS (across all Juniper routers). Extensively worked in clustered routers based on interconnection of high end routers using high speed fabric and in low end Juniper routers.In addition to the engineering responsibilities, continuously interacted with customer support and product management to develop new specifications that will eventually become features in the product.
  • Desana Systems
    Principal Engineer
    Desana Systems Jun 2000 - Mar 2002
    As one of the earliest engineers, initially I was responsible for putting together various base software components and release management. As the team grow, I worked on architecting, developing and deploying several core components (resource management, high speed messaging library and routing in the fabric) of an L7 switch that load balances application traffic across multiple web servers, application servers and database servers.
  • University Of Wisconsin, Madison
    Research Assistant
    University Of Wisconsin, Madison Jan 1995 - Jun 2000
    Madison, Wi, Us
    During this time I was extensively involved in researching, developing and implementing new algorithms for performance and complex operations in large scale parallel object relational databases which was acquired by NCR Teradata. Furthermore, I worked in developing various OLAP technologies for speeding up decision support queries based on combination of novel storage techniques (fact file), caching and shared predicate and aggregation evaluation - acquired by NCR Teradata and sold to Microstrategy for $30M
  • Ncr Teradata Corporation
    Senior Software Engineer
    Ncr Teradata Corporation Aug 1998 - Aug 1999
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    After acquisition of OLAP technology developed at University of Wisconsin, I worked extensively integrating it into Teradata datamart products. During the course of integration developed additional patented technologies and eventually the entire product line was sold to Microstrategy for $30M.
  • Compuware
    Senior Software Engineer
    Compuware Sep 1993 - Aug 1994
    Detroit, Mi, Us
    Designed and developed a framework to manage database servers, networks and OS running on different ma-chines from a single console. Management involved continuous monitoring for collecting performance data or raise events under exception conditions. Developed the logging mechanism to collect the monitored data and log in ORACLE or SYBASE or a flat file. Client interacts through RPC and includes a mechanism to cache the data at the client side.
  • Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi
    Member Of Research Staff
    Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi Aug 1990 - Aug 1991
    New Delhi, In
    Researched and developed a system that aids chip design by automatically generating hardware components and their inter-connections based on behavioral description in a high level language similar to VHDL. The system and algorithms went on to influence the semiconductor design in some of the Indian industries.
  • Pertech Computers Limited
    Software Engineer
    Pertech Computers Limited Aug 1989 - Aug 1990
    Architected and developed a resident software to give DOS the power to map a directory or a file system in UNIX residing on the same disk in different partitions or on remote machine to a logical drive for allowing us-ers a consistent DOS like user experience for UNIX files.

Karthik Ramasamy Skills

Distributed Systems Big Data Databases Cloud Computing Networking Algorithms Unix Hadoop Software Engineering Product Management System Architecture File Systems Oop

Karthik Ramasamy Education Details

  • University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    University Of Wisconsin-Madison
    Computer Science
  • University Of Missouri-Kansas City
    University Of Missouri-Kansas City
    Computer Science
  • College Of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Madras, India
    College Of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Madras, India
    Computer Science And Engineering
  • Tvs Lakshmi Matriculation Hss
    Tvs Lakshmi Matriculation Hss

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