About

Ananth Packkildurai is a highly experienced data engineer, editor, angel investor, and advisor for early-stage data startups. He is currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Zendesk, where he is responsible for advising and investing in data engineering and data analytics startups. Ananth has a wealth of experience in the field of data engineering and has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. He previously worked at Slack, where he played a key role in developing scalable visibility infrastructure for logs, metrics, and traces. He also helped to build the data platform from the ground up, managing terabyte-scale data warehouse systems. Before joining Slack, Ananth helped to build a big data platform for Bazaarvoice, Sephora, and Evlov Inc. He was a founding member of the Consus R&D team, where he helped to build data infrastructure event streaming for 800 million users per month. Ananth is a specialist in observability, infrastructure, data engineering, and data infrastructure. He is currently working at the exciting intersection of applying traditional data platform concepts to the observability infrastructure. Ananth's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Anna University. He has a tech stack that includes data engineering, software engineering, infra, big data, data warehouse, senior software engineering, and Apache Airflow. Ananth is a highly skilled and experienced data engineer with over 16 years of relevant experience. He is passionate about data engineering and is always looking for new and innovative ways to apply his skills and expertise. If you are looking for an advisor or angel investor for your data startup, or if you simply want to chat about data engineering, Ananth is the person to talk to. You can book a meeting with him on calendly.com/apackkildurai.