About

Tamil Selvan Kandasamy is a Senior AI Support Engineer at DataRobot with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field of AI and ML. He is an expert in enabling customers to realize the true potential of AI and ML by providing them with top-notch support. Before joining DataRobot, Tamil worked as a Staff Customer Operations Engineer and a Senior Customer Operation Engineer at Cloudera. During his time at Cloudera, he worked on multiple Hadoop components such as Apache Hive, Yarn, Tez, Spark, and HDFS. He helped customers scale their clusters and worked on accelerating their use cases using sub-second processing engines. He also assisted customers with critical upgrades, patching, and provided workarounds in enterprise clusters with minimum downtime. Tamil is an expert in backporting patches, validating fixes, and building Dev Jars for issue validations. He reviews Jstacks, jmap dump, and isolates memory leak issues and reports them to the product team. He has experience working with CDP Private Cloud and helping customers migrate and realize the true potential of on-premise and cloud environments. He is also proficient in installing and troubleshooting Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) on AWS and Azure instances. Tamil has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Anna University. He also completed his 12th grade in Mathematics and Computer Science from JP International School, Greater Noida, and his 10th grade in CBSE from Kendriya Vidyalaya. Tamil's technical skills include AI, ML, AWS, Apache Hive, HDFS, Spark, Data Warehouse, Hadoop, and Azure. He is a valuable asset to any team and is known for his exceptional training and mentoring skills. He has conducted boot camp sessions, component-specific deep dive trainings, and enhanced internal product documentation. Tamil is also a part of the technical interview panel.