About

Som Satapathy is an experienced technology leader with a passion for building large-scale data-driven services and intelligent systems. He is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, where he is helping to build the Real-time Customer Data Platform (RTCDP) and the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) - Unified Identity and Query Service. With over 13 years of relevant experience, Som is skilled at building high-performing teams, establishing vision and goals for products, managing and working with globally distributed teams, identifying and fostering talent, and spreading best practices for next-generation data-driven services and infrastructure. Som's technical skills include Java, Scala, Python, SQL, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, J2EE/Spring/Hibernate/RESTful Web Services/RDBMS, Apache Spark/Spark streaming/Flink/Storm, Apache Kafka/Kafka-connect, Docker/Kubernetes, Hadoop/YARN/Oozie, HBase/Cassandra/MongoDB, Lucene/Solr/Elasticsearch, Scikit-learn/Pandas/Tensorflow/Keras, AWS/Azure, and Mac OS/Linux/Unix/Windows. He has worked on several products at Adobe, including the Adobe Experience Platform - Real-time Machine Learning and the Adobe Target - Automated Personalization/1:1, AutoAllocate, AutoTarget, Insights. Som holds an Integrated Bachelor's and Master's degree in Information Systems from BITS Pilani and an M.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a strong communicator, a good listener, persevering, and eager to learn new things. Som is passionate about distributed systems and machine learning, and he enjoys spreading best practices for next-generation scalable data services and infrastructure.