Seetharam Venkatesh

San Francisco Bay Area, California United States

Hadoop, Data Management, Architect, Management Leader, Entrepreneur

Technology / Software / Internet

Venkatesh has about 20 years of experience in software development and architecture. Venkatesh has been working on Hadoop for nearly a decade. He started as an early large-scale user of Lucene and Hadoop at Thomson Learning as a Distributed Search Architect. He then joined Yahoo! in 2007 and designed hadoop ETL at internet-scale that managed 300+TB of data in 3000+ data sets across 26 hadoop clusters with 40K computers. He then joined Hortonworks and has been leading the data integration, data management, metadata and data governance efforts for Hadoop. He led the architecture and design of Hadoop ETL in Apache Falcon, Data Governance for Hadoop in Apache Atlas and incubated them at Ap...