Resume

19Bits Inc - Founder
2024 - Present

  • Developed SWE Agent for tech document testing, leveraging Langgraph and fine-tuned OSS models (Qwen2.5, Llama3), resulting in 60% bug detection in documentation and scaling to 5 customers.

Kinaxis - Architect, Data/AI Platform
2022 - 2024

  • Led the design and implementation of Kinaxis' modern data stack (Unity Catalog, Apache Hop, Spark), breaking data silos across the organization with 100s of tables, and pipelines.
  • Implemented IaC private networking for the AI Platform (Azure, GCP), enhancing security and scalability.
  • Standardized documentation (Docusaurus, D2Lang) to improve architectural decision capture process of ~100 engineers.

Kinaxis - Director, Data/AI Platform
2020 - 2022

  • Spearheaded MLOps for 30 engineers, delivering enterprise SaaS for demand/promotional forecasting, integrating ML with diverse verticals and managing 100+ TBs of data.
  • Authored a comprehensive team handbook outlining philosophy, leadership principles, and processes, improving team alignment and operational efficiency.
  • Expanded AI Platform features to increase platform adoption - authoring, log aggregation, delta lake support, spark cluster management.
  • Reporting and forecasting on public cloud accounts of 3 million$/yr, including budgeting, forecasting, and vendor negotiations. Facilitated on-prem to public cloud migration with guardrails and cost controls.

Rubikloud - Director, Data Platform/SRE
2019 - 2020

  • Led and scaled Cloud Infrastructure and Data Platform teams to 10 engineers.
  • Architected and built a SaaS Data and MLOps Platform (Apache Spark, Argo, Kubernetes), reducing SLA by 50% to 6 hours through intra-job concurrency and queueing.
  • Delivered production-grade Ingestion/ML pipelines handling ~10 TB datasets for billion-dollar retailers (GCP, Azure).
  • Owned and executed the 12-month platform roadmap, aligning with key stakeholder objectives.

Athletigen - Engineering Lead
2015 - 2017

  • Promoted to Engineering Lead, managing a team of 6 engineers within one year.
  • Architected and deployed HIPAA-compliant DNA kit logistics and genetic data-processing pipelines.
  • Implemented core REST API and private developer API platform, enabling partner integrations.
  • Implemented CI/CD (Chef, Docker, CircleCI), reducing build and deployment times to <10 minutes with daily production pushes.

Zomato - Full Stack Engineer
2014 - 2015

  • Designed and deployed Zomato’s social news feed for 20 million monthly active users using multi-DC Cassandra cluster.
  • Contributed to a 4-member team developing an in-house Invoice, Accounting, and Billing system for Zomato's global sales across 14 countries.
  • Developed a metrics collection mechanism (Cassandra) to optimize ad placement and maximize CTR.
  • Streamlined developer experience for 40 engineers by establishing GIT workflow and CI (Jenkins, Grunt).

Publications

Awards & Recognition

  • Google Summer of Code 2013 - Maryland Institute of Technology
  • Google Summer of Code 2012 - UCLA, SOCR
  • Google Summer of Code 2011 - Inclusive Design Institute, OCAD
  • Yahoo! ID8 Winner 2012 - Innovation competition at Yahoo! India R&D
Selvam Palanimalai