Sriharsha Chintalapani

Sriharsha Chintalapani has a diverse and extensive work history. Sriharsha is currently the Co-Founder & CTO at Collate, a position they have held since September 2021. Sriharsha is also a Builder at OpenMetadata, starting in September 2021.

Prior to these roles, Sriharsha Chintalapani had significant contributions at various organizations. At Uber, they served as a Data Architect from June 2018 to January 2022, where they played a crucial role in improving the reliability and availability of the Kafka service, a critical component for data transfer within Uber.

Before Uber, Sriharsha Chintalapani had a substantial tenure at Hortonworks. Sriharsha held the position of Architect/Eng. Lead - Streaming Platform, where they introduced Apache Kafka to the company's platform and made significant contributions to Storm and Kafka's features. Additionally, they took on managerial responsibilities and grew the team to 14 engineers during their time at Hortonworks, from April 2014 to June 2018.

Sriharsha Chintalapani also worked at Mozilla Corporation as a Tech Lead, leading a team to build a metrics collection system using Apache Kafka and Storm from July 2012 to April 2014.

Further back in their career, Sriharsha Chintalapani was a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo! from January 2008 to July 2012, where they worked on scaling vertical search engines and designing new GEO RESTFUL APIs. Sriharsha also had a contributor role at Hypertable, Inc. in 2010.

Early in their career, Sriharsha Chintalapani worked as a Research Assistant at the University of North Carolina from August 2006 to December 2007 and completed an internship at Yahoo! Inc from June 2007 to August 2007.

Overall, Sriharsha Chintalapani has gained extensive experience and expertise in various roles, including co-founding a company, leading teams, and making significant contributions to the Apache Kafka, Storm, and Hadoop projects.

Sriharsha Chintalapani obtained their Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina during the period of 2006 to 2007.