About

Shivram Mani is a highly skilled and passionate software developer with over 15 years of experience in technical leadership, end-to-end execution, and building highly scalable products. As the Principal Sr Engineering Manager at Pivotal, Inc., he leads a geo-distributed team that facilitates Greenplum execution/integration with external datasets including Spark, Hadoop, S3, etc. Shivram's successful track record of building scalable backend systems and web services is evident in the multiple products he has taken from inception/design to production deployment. He has a keen interest in all things scale/distributed systems, search engineering, Hadoop ecosystem, and data mining. In his previous roles at Pivotal, Inc., Shivram served as a Principal Staff Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer, where he designed and developed the Pivotal Extension Framework (PXF) and the Unified Storage System (USS), respectively. He was instrumental in delivering the Pivotal Hadoop stack and architected several core modules of the distributed cluster management tool for the Pivotal Hadoop stack (containing Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, ZK, HAWQ, etc.). Shivram holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. His tech stack includes senior software engineering, Hadoop, Spark, search, integration, and backend development. Overall, Shivram is a highly accomplished software developer with a proven track record of building scalable products and leading teams. His passion for distributed systems, search engineering, and data mining make him a valuable asset to any organization.