# Kanan Totawar

> Principal Software Engineer at Workday

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kanan

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Systems @ Workday
Jan 2022 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States

### Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems @ Workday
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pleasanton, California, United States
Worked on developing a reactive dependency injection framework and to enable high availability for software components using leader election.

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Trifacta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Lead and helped deliver multiple initiatives/features as part of the connectivity team.
- Worked on researching and prototyping of various ways and define incremental deliverables for improving the scalability and resiliency of data processing services/jobs for cloud products.
- Worked on cross-team project for infrastructure improvements and developed a generic (cloud platform agnostic) framework for launching data processing jobs as Kubernetes jobs.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Informatica
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Redwood City, California, United States
Designed and developed data preview feature for debugging Informatica data pipeline (to be executed with Apache Spark) during development phase, added/introduced notebook style runtime capability to preview data pipeline in Informatica's Big Data Management product.

### Software Development Engineer @ Informatica
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City, CA
Worked on Informatica's hybrid grid for Data Integration Service..

### Software Engineer @ Informatica
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City, California, United States
Involved in white box API testing and development of test framework using Aspect Oriented Programming for Informatica's Workflow Recovery feature

Involved in development of test framework for Integration Service Resiliency feature

Worked on developing the unified integration tests framework for build process

### Software Engineer @ Informatica
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Worked on Informatica's Web Services Transformation.

### OSUM Leader @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science
SRKNEC, Nagpur

### HSSC in Computer Science
Shri Shivaji Science College

### SSC
V.T.Convent


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kanantotawar

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Last updated: 2026-04-12