About

Kartik Bommapally is a skilled Senior Staff Engineer with over 13 years of experience in software architecture, design, and development. He is currently employed at Flipkart, where he is responsible for managing petabytes of data and crunching terabytes of data hourly over 100K+ cores. Kartik is a data platform enthusiast who is passionate about internet-scale applications, distributed systems, and big data. Kartik has a strong academic background, having earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2009. He has worked on a variety of projects throughout his career, including dynamic pricing, network anonymity, competitive intelligence, and catalog systems. He has also contributed to cloud billing management, cloud storage management, and OpenStack. Kartik has experience working with a range of technologies, including SQL, Spark, Hadoop, GCP, and RabbitMQ. He has also worked with Python, MySQL, and MapReduce. His technical skills are complemented by his expertise in system stability and management at scale. Kartik is a dedicated professional who is committed to optimizing critical analytical workloads. He has a proven track record of optimizing Hadoop clusters, QoS, Yarn queues, and Linux cgroups. He is also proficient in the GCP Analytics stack, including BQ, GCS, DataProc, and Spark Serverless. Kartik has worked for some of the biggest names in the tech industry, including Google and VMware. At Google, he worked on a project called Bunter, which was a SQL query engine over BigTable and SSTable. At VMware, he developed a VMDK Cinder Driver for OpenStack, which enabled OpenStack users to create mountable volumes or block devices based on VMDK files over vSphere datastores. Overall, Kartik is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer who is passionate about big data, distributed systems, and internet-scale applications. He is a valuable asset to any organization that values technical expertise, innovation, and dedication.