# Donapudi Prathima > Staff Software Engineer at Google, ex-Netflix Location: Los Altos, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/donapudi As a highly skilled professional with over 20 years of experience in entertainment, finance, telecom, and healthcare industries, I have a diverse background in various roles such as distributed systems architect, security architect, infrastructure architect, SOA architect, engineering manager, and technical lead. With a strong track record of managing complex portfolios of projects, I am adept at working with multi-disciplinary teams both onsite and offshore and presenting at various technology conferences. Throughout my career, I have successfully utilized both traditional and agile/scrum methodologies for engineering leadership throughout the software development lifecycle. I excel in the architecture and implementation of high-performance software, infrastructure, and shared technology on multiple platforms. With proven results, I have experience in managing large-scale, high visibility projects. My interest in distributed systems at scale is a particular passion of mine, and I have a proven track record of solving complex performance and scaling problems at multi-peta bytes scale. Staying at the forefront of emerging trends and technologies is of great importance to me, ensuring that I am always delivering innovative solutions that meet the needs of my clients and employers. With a strong commitment to excellence, I am dedicated to utilizing my skills and expertise to drive success for the organizations I work with. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2020 – Present | Mountain View, California Speaker at Google Internal Conferences: BI Tech Talk 2021: Delivered a presentation on achieving 10X+ performance improvement for PetaBytes of Android Telemetry data. DataVerse 2022: Customer lightning talk on low-latency Android Telemetry Dogfood Sessions Pipeline. Performance Summit 2023: Shared insights on stress testing a streaming flume pipeline for scalability and reliability. ServerCon 2023: Presented on production hygiene for streaming flume pipelines with dual homing. BI Tech Talks 2024: Discussed emerging trends in the data warehouse industry. Performance and Optimization Summit 2024: Demonstrated optimized petabytes-scale data processing, accelerating telemetry queries by 10-100X and reducing costs by 10-1000X through innovative strategies and cutting-edge techniques. Recognized for Impactful Contributions: Received two Google Perfy awards in 2024: Gold: For eliminating duplicate Gaia logging, saving ~20 SWEs worth of resources and improving privacy Silver: For significantly improving query performance and reducing costs through advanced data partitioning for petabytes scale data. ### Senior Software Engineer/Architect - Machine Learning Infrastructure @ Netflix Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Los Gatos, CA Focusing on Machine Learning Infrastructure for Netflix Recommendations. As part of the team, my primary focus is to build out big data analytics tools like Marathon, Spark and Hadoop on mesos platform in the AWS cloud along with supporting Jupyter and Zeppelin notebooks. These tools are at the heart of ML pipelines and analytics at Netflix and we are continuously pushing their performance and scale. Speaker @MesosCon2018: Multi-tenant Spark workflows in Auto Scalable Mesos clusters ### Principal Engineer - EW Labs @ Early Warning® Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 R&D and Engineering of various Big Data tools and technologies. ### Enterprise Software Engineer / Principal Engineer @ Early Warning® Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Phoenix, Arizona Area As a Hadoop security architect made the Hadoop platform PCI complaint by enabling Kerberos Authentication, Sentry policies for HDFS, Hive and Hbase, end-to-end encryption using Cloudera Navigator. Enabled multi-tenancy within the Hadoop platform using Yarn Qs and ACLs. Enabled DataStax Cassandra authentication and node-to-node and client-to-node encryption. Cassandra schema design. Hbase schema design and Hbase tuning to support peta bytes of historical data load to support faster queries with less space consumption on HDFS. Hbase bulk upload to load historical data. Disaster recovery architecture for Hadoop platform. Capacity planning for Hadoop cluster. Hadoop infrastructure architecture for Development, QA and Production environments. Spark jobs performance tuning. Restful web service development using Spring boot. F5 VIP configuration to enable load balancing and SSL offloading. Hadoop platform and application automation using Chef. Hadoop and Spark application(s) design and development. Enabled Kafka security. ### Lead Technical Architect @ American Express Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 Design and development of WebServices, SOA governance, Platform Architecture, Reference Architecture for Digital Platform, Infrastructure Architecture, Big Data, R&D and Engineering ### Java Architect @ Choice Hotels International Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Designed and developed a messaging system for rate management for Choice Hotels. Involved in Choice's initiative for technology streamlining and project governance. ### Lead Architect @ American Express Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Application Prescriptive and Reference Architectures, R&D and engineering, IT governance of enterprise-wide deployment of J2EE applications. Technology due care for 3rd party (commercial and open source) components and packages. Collaborate with application development teams and provide technical and architectural guidance as needed. ### Engineering Manager @ Acxiom Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Responsible for portal infrastructure, application architecture and client delivery of JBoss Portal for Wolters Kluwer Health, undergoing major Business Transformation adapting scrum methodology. Worked closely with business partners to help define the requirements and product strategy Hired, mentored and built an end-to-end portal development team of roughly 40 members Managed resources and their task scheduling for a $9M budget with 6 parallel workstreams Successfully introduced and implemented a cost effective offshore development model at Acxiom for the first time Designed and developed key portal framework components, portlets and Webservices All Star Award - May 2007 ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Space Data Corporation Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 Was one of the first 20 members of a startup. Principal architect in the analysis, design and development of an inhouse tool for Command and Control Center to track and control the air borne balloons used for providing wireless servies in remote areas. ## Education ### MS in Computer Science Arizona State University ### BS in Computer Science Acharya Nagarjuna University ### Thapar Vidya Vihar ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donapudi --- Source: https://flows.cv/donapudi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/donapudi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12