Data Lakehouse & Platform Engineers

LinkedIn Profile Report — v4 (Experience Corrected)

FIX: Now filtering by TOTAL career experience, not just current job tenure

45 Profiles 18 Companies <8yr Total Exp USA Only Data Lake/Lakehouse Focus
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⚠️ What changed in v4: Previous version checked only current job tenure. This version applies a strict <8yr estimated total career experience filter — removing all candidates where the sum of prior jobs could push total past 10 years. Conservative buffer of 2 years before the 10yr threshold.

Filter applied: Removed all candidates with ~8yr or ~9yr estimates (15 removals: Ryan Berti, Saul Cruz, Stanley Yao, Ankush Gupta, Arjun A., Xin Huang, Sridhar Machiraju, Sriram Krishnamurthy, Zheng Hu, David Meyer, Tim Spann, Sophie Blee-Goldman, Yuhao Dong, Javier Buquet, Varun Vyas, Sundar Manoharan). Kept only ~2yr to ~7yr estimates.
Databricks
8 profiles
Chen He
Databricks  |  San Francisco, CA
~2 yr total
Apache Kafka · Iceberg · Spark · Data Platform
Early-career engineer. CMU grad. ex-ByteDance intern. Works on Kafka, Iceberg, Spark data platform.
linkedin.com/in/chenhecmu
Eric Wang
Databricks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~4-6 yr total
Data Platform Engineering
Caltech graduate, Databricks data platform engineering.
linkedin.com/in/ericewang
Patrick Do
Databricks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Serverless · Iceberg v3
Works on Spark Connect, serverless platform, and Iceberg v3 at Databricks.
linkedin.com/in/patdohere
Philip Kernan
Databricks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Iceberg · Snowflake · Performance
Apache Iceberg performance and Snowflake interoperability at Databricks.
linkedin.com/in/philipkernan
David Gojo
Databricks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Databricks · Snowflake · Spark · Cortex AI
Databricks platform engineering with Snowflake and Spark.
linkedin.com/in/dgojo
Yuhong Chen
Databricks  |  Mountain View, CA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Data Engineering
Databricks data platform engineering. UC Berkeley graduate.
linkedin.com/in/yuhongc
Mark Rizkallah
Databricks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Iceberg · Spark · Unity Catalog
Iceberg and Unity Catalog solutions at Databricks.
linkedin.com/in/mark-rizkallah
Allison Wang
Databricks  |  Mountain View, CA
~7 yr total
Apache Spark · Data Platform
Staff engineer on Databricks data platform. CMU graduate.
linkedin.com/in/allisonwang42
Netflix
4 profiles
Ian Brown
Netflix  |  San Francisco, CA
~5-7 yr total
Data Platform Engineering
Newer Netflix engineer, UW Madison graduate. Profile shows data platform work.
linkedin.com/in/ianbrown
Kasturi Chatterjee
Netflix  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Data Engineering
Data engineering for Netflix content/biz data.
linkedin.com/in/kasturi-chatterjee-a900715
Mitesh Mangaonkar
Netflix  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Databricks
Spark/Data platform engineering at Netflix.
linkedin.com/in/mitesh-mangaonkar-92244331
Michelle Hartley
Netflix  |  Los Gatos, CA
~7 yr total
Apache Spark · Databricks · Analytics
Databricks and Spark for Netflix analytics workloads.
linkedin.com/in/vivahartley
Meta
4 profiles
Ada M.
Meta  |  San Francisco, CA
~2-4 yr total
Data Engineering
CMU graduate, newer Meta engineer.
linkedin.com/in/ada-martin-cmu
Sahil Kala
Meta  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~5 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · Airflow
Meta data engineering. University of Cincinnati graduate.
linkedin.com/in/kalasahil
Krisha Mehta
Meta  |  Menlo Park, CA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · Airflow · PySpark
Data engineering at Meta. Learning SQL, DSA, distributed systems.
linkedin.com/in/krishamehta98
Bowen Zhang
Meta  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~7 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · Mantis · Data Infrastructure
Meta data infrastructure. Mantis (Meta's stream processing), Kafka, Spark. Ex-Spotify.
linkedin.com/in/bowenzhg
Salesforce
4 profiles
Vidhyaa Gopal
Salesforce  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Iceberg · Data Platform · Kafka
Salesforce data platform engineering with Apache Iceberg.
linkedin.com/in/vidhyaag
Anirudh Srinivas
Salesforce  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Kafka · Hadoop · HBase · Spark
Salesforce big data platform: Kafka, Hadoop, HBase, Spark. USC graduate.
linkedin.com/in/anirudhsrinivas
Shalini Gautam
Salesforce  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Kafka · Spring Boot · Microservices
Salesforce data platform with Kafka and microservices.
linkedin.com/in/shalini-gautam-sf
Senthilkumar Mani
Salesforce  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · HBase · Hadoop
Salesforce big data platform: Spark, Kafka, HBase, Hadoop.
linkedin.com/in/senthilkumarmani21
Amazon
3 profiles
Harshita Revadigar
Amazon  |  Seattle, WA
~5 yr total
Apache Spark · AWS EMR · S3 · Data Pipelines
Data Engineer II at Amazon. AWS EMR, Spark. University of Washington graduate.
linkedin.com/in/harshita-revadigar-b33417153
Surya Kondapalli
Amazon  |  Seattle, WA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Hive · HBase · EMR · Sqoop
Amazon data engineering: EMR, Spark, Hive, HBase, Sqoop.
linkedin.com/in/surya-kondapalli-ba79612aa
Alex Lorang
Amazon  |  Seattle, WA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Snowflake · AWS EMR
Data Engineer II at Amazon. Spark on EMR, Snowflake.
linkedin.com/in/alexlorang
Spotify
3 profiles
Sohan Shah
Spotify  |  New York, NY
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · Big Data
Spotify big data platform. Spark and Kafka. UCSB graduate.
linkedin.com/in/sohanshah
Kishore Nakka
Spotify  |  San Francisco, CA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Kafka · Databricks · Snowflake
Spotify data platform: Spark, Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake.
linkedin.com/in/kishore-nakka
Daynesh Mangal
Spotify  |  New York, NY
~6 yr total
Apache Kafka · Spark · Big Data
Spotify data platform with Kafka and Spark.
linkedin.com/in/daynesh
Expedia Group
3 profiles
Reema Yadav
Expedia Group  |  Seattle, WA
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Data Engineering
Expedia data platform with Spark. Stanford Engineering graduate.
linkedin.com/in/reemy
Harshith Settyhalli
Expedia Group  |  Seattle, WA
~5 yr total
Big Data · Apache Spark
Expedia big data platform. University of Minnesota graduate.
linkedin.com/in/harshith-settyhalli-1b320665
Wanli Lau
Expedia Group  |  Greater Seattle Area
~5 yr total
Big Data · Apache Spark
Expedia data platform. University of Washington graduate.
linkedin.com/in/wanlilau
Airbnb
3 profiles
Madeline Zhang
Airbnb  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~2-4 yr total
Data Engineering
MIT graduate, newer to industry. Airbnb data engineering.
linkedin.com/in/madelinemzhang
Luke Lowery
Airbnb  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Data Platforms · Apache Spark · Kafka
Airbnb data platforms team. Spark and Kafka infrastructure.
linkedin.com/in/luke-lowery
Eddie Yang Chen
Airbnb (ex-OpenAI)  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~5-7 yr total
Data Platform · A/B Testing Infrastructure
Data platform and A/B testing infrastructure at Airbnb. ex-OpenAI.
linkedin.com/in/eddieyangchen
LinkedIn
2 profiles
Growth SRE
LinkedIn  |  Mountain View, CA
~6 yr total
Data Infrastructure SRE · Kafka · Spark
Site Reliability Engineer for LinkedIn's data infrastructure. Kafka and Spark SRE.
linkedin.com/in/growth-sre-7022961b6
Shuaib Ahmad
LinkedIn  |  Sunnyvale, CA
~7 yr total
Big Data · Apache Spark
LinkedIn big data engineering with Apache Spark.
linkedin.com/in/shuaib-ahmad-b5ba8a1ba
Uber
2 profiles
Andrew Wang
Uber  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~3-5 yr total
Data Platform Engineering
Newer Uber engineer, UC San Diego graduate.
linkedin.com/in/andrewlikestea
Ying Zheng
Uber  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~7 yr total
Kafka · Microservices
Uber data infrastructure with Kafka and microservices.
linkedin.com/in/ying-zheng-5975b118
Walmart Global Tech
2 profiles
Rafael Baring
Walmart Global Tech  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Spark · Delta Lake · Databricks · Fault Tolerance
Walmart data platform with fault tolerance in Spark Structured Streaming and Delta Lake.
linkedin.com/in/rafael-baring
Shubham Gondane
Walmart Global Tech  |  Bentonville, AR
~7 yr total
Apache Spark · Airflow · Snowflake
Senior data engineer at Walmart. Spark, Airflow, Snowflake.
linkedin.com/in/shubhamgondane
Confluent
2 profiles
Nikesh Kumar
Confluent  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Kafka · Streaming · Data Analytics
Confluent engineer for Apache Kafka streaming platform.
linkedin.com/in/nikesh-kumar-s
Luke Young
Confluent  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Apache Kafka · Data Streaming
Confluent Kafka platform engineering.
linkedin.com/in/bored-engineer
Apple
1 profile
Yifeng Chen
Apple  |  Cupertino, CA
~7 yr total
Apache Kafka · Flink · Spark · Hive · Luigi
Apple's data infrastructure: Kafka, Flink (real-time streaming), Spark batch, Luigi workflow.
linkedin.com/in/yifengchen-cyf
Coinbase
1 profile
Erik Reppel
Coinbase  |  San Francisco, CA
~6 yr total
Kafka · Elasticsearch · Data Pipelines
Coinbase data platform engineering. Kafka and ElasticSearch pipelines.
linkedin.com/in/erikreppel
Snowflake
1 profile
Kate Beispel
Snowflake  |  San Francisco, CA
~6 yr total
Apache Iceberg · Snowflake · Data Pipelines
Snowflake data lakehouse with Apache Iceberg. Data pipelines.
linkedin.com/in/kate-beispel-7586818a
Palo Alto Networks
1 profile
Vishvjeet Yadav
Palo Alto Networks  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~7 yr total
Platform Engineering · Go · Kafka
Platform engineering with Go and Kafka at Palo Alto Networks.
linkedin.com/in/vishvjeet-yadav
Cloudera
1 profile
Anshul Gupta
Cloudera  |  San Francisco Bay Area
~6 yr total
Hadoop · Apache Spark · Kafka
Cloudera engineer. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka. NDSU graduate.
linkedin.com/in/aguptapro

Methodology: Candidates filtered for <8yr estimated total career experience. Conservative 2yr buffer before 10yr threshold.
Profiles gathered via LinkedIn search, Apache Iceberg Summit/engineering blog references, and OSS signals.
v4 — Experience corrected. Previous version counted only current job tenure, not total career length.