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Sudarshan Shubakar

Staff Engineer | Distributed Systems · Kafka · Flink · Kubernetes · OCI · AWS | Cloud-Native Platform & AI Infrastructure | Open to Senior/Staff Roles

Bengaluru

16+ years of work experience

Oracle
Jan 20205 yrs 10 mosOct 2025

Bengaluru Area, India

- Architected OCI-native Developer Experience platform for Oracle Health's partner ecosystem — automated CI/CD pipelines cut environment onboarding from 2 weeks to ~5 minutes, saving ~45K operational hours/year. - Designed end-to-end OCI infrastructure: VCN/subnets/NSGs, OKE/Kubernetes, API Gateway, TLS/cert management, and Oracle DB integration — driving full migration from VMware to OCI. - Defined architectural standards and led cross-team design reviews across 3 platform teams (~15 engineers), governing DevEx, scalability and high-availability decisions. - Prototyped AI-driven workflow orchestration for Patient Payments — Aimed at improving payer engagement by up to 20%.
GE Digital
Sep 20172 yrs 4 mosDec 2019

Bengaluru Area, India

- Collaborated with Sr. Staff architects to design a data-driven process center-lining solution for a plastics manufacturing customer — ingesting, cleaning, running ML predictions on, and visualizing centerline parameters using a Spring Boot + Spark-compatible pipeline. - Personally architected and developed the front-end visualization layer using ReactJS backed by a Node/Express server, delivered end-to-end. - Led detailed requirements elicitation sessions with customers, translating business needs into clear engineering specifications and test plans — demonstrating strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Managed a team of 10 engineers, Owned technology decisions, Agile dev practices, CI/CD pipeline setup, and test/code quality standards across the team.
Amazon
Oct 20161 yrSep 2017

Bengaluru Area, India

- Led a team of 10 engineers to drive technology solutions to keep sellers engaged and successful on Amazon India's marketplace — directly impacting seller retention and platform revenue. - Key initiatives included incorporating GST for Sellers in the Amazon India marketplace and revamping the Seller rewards program. - Operated within Amazon's large-scale distributed systems environment (SOA, microservices, high-availability infrastructure serving millions of sellers and petabytes of transactional data).
GS Lab
Jan 20142 yrs 10 mosOct 2016

Pune

Built and led distributed systems and data platform engineering across high-throughput streaming, real-time analytics, and large-scale search. - Designed and built a resilient, high-throughput streaming data pipeline using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink(on AWS EMR) (stateful stream processing), Cassandra, and AWS S3 — implementing a scalable data lake ingestion layer for the largest commodities/derivatives exchange globally, through end-to-end Flink operator profiling and tuning to sustain 60K msg/sec at peak load, built reactive query services (Jersey, RxJava + Cassandra) with HAProxy/Consul-based auto-scaling for high-availability reads in order to enable market data queryability within 5 minutes of generation. - Architected search infrastructure handling 40x product catalog growth (300K → 12M SKUs) for an eCommerce platform using Golang and Elasticsearch on AWS — enabling complex attribute-based and molecular structure search at scale. - Architected a pluggable real-time analytics platform connecting diverse data sources, applying custom rules on streaming data, and surfacing insights via Elasticsearch — enabling near-real-time data quality monitoring at scale.
3DPLM Software Solutions Limited
Feb 20122 yrsJan 2014

- Led delivery of a PLM system integration for an aerospace major — architecting the integration layer between the ENOVIA PLM system and external systems, managing a team of ~30 engineers. - Co-architected and managed delivery of product customizations for engineering process workflows; developed Bill of Materials and Change Management features for multiple enterprise customers.
3DPLM Software Solutions Limited
Oct 20092 yrs 4 mosJan 2012

3DPLM Software Solutions Limited
Oct 20081 yr 3 mosDec 2009

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Education

University of Mysore

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics engg.

University of Mysore

19974 yrs2001

Model English School Dombivli.

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Headline

Staff Engineer | Distributed Systems · Kafka · Flink · Kubernetes · OCI · AWS | Cloud-Native Platform & AI Infrastructure | Open to Senior/Staff Roles

About

Senior Staff Engineer and hands-on technical architect with 20+ years designing high-scale distributed systems, streaming data platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. Built high-throughput pipelines processing 60K+ messages/sec (Kafka · Flink · Cassandra), delivered OCI-native platforms that cut environment onboarding from 2 weeks to ~5 minutes, and saved ~45K operational hours/year. Architected and prototyped AI-driven workflow systems for healthcare payment platforms. Deep expertise in: Apache Kafka / Flink / Spark · Kubernetes (EKS/OKE) · Java · Go · Python · AWS · OCI · Microservices · Developer Platform Design. I've led cross-functional engineering programs (15–30 engineers), defined architecture standards, and driven measurable outcomes across Oracle Health, Amazon, GE Digital, and GS Lab. Open to Senior Staff / Principal Engineer roles in distributed systems, data infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

grok

ollama

Cerebras

Work experience

Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, Jan 2020 - Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, - Architected OCI-native Developer Experience platform for Oracle Health's partner ecosystem — automated CI/CD pipelines cut environment onboarding from 2 weeks to ~5 minutes, saving ~45K operational hours/year. - Designed end-to-end OCI infrastructure: VCN/subnets/NSGs, OKE/Kubernetes, API Gateway, TLS/cert management, and Oracle DB integration — driving full migration from VMware to OCI. - Defined architectural standards and led cross-team design reviews across 3 platform teams (~15 engineers), governing DevEx, scalability and high-availability decisions. - Prototyped AI-driven workflow orchestration for Patient Payments — Aimed at improving payer engagement by up to 20%.

Sr. SDM at GE Digital, Sep 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, - Collaborated with Sr. Staff architects to design a data-driven process center-lining solution for a plastics manufacturing customer — ingesting, cleaning, running ML predictions on, and visualizing centerline parameters using a Spring Boot + Spark-compatible pipeline. - Personally architected and developed the front-end visualization layer using ReactJS backed by a Node/Express server, delivered end-to-end. - Led detailed requirements elicitation sessions with customers, translating business needs into clear engineering specifications and test plans — demonstrating strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Managed a team of 10 engineers, Owned technology decisions, Agile dev practices, CI/CD pipeline setup, and test/code quality standards across the team.

Software Development Manager at Amazon, Oct 2016 - Sep 2017 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, - Led a team of 10 engineers to drive technology solutions to keep sellers engaged and successful on Amazon India's marketplace — directly impacting seller retention and platform revenue. - Key initiatives included incorporating GST for Sellers in the Amazon India marketplace and revamping the Seller rewards program. - Operated within Amazon's large-scale distributed systems environment (SOA, microservices, high-availability infrastructure serving millions of sellers and petabytes of transactional data).

Associate Technical Manager at GS Lab, Jan 2014 - Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Pune, Built and led distributed systems and data platform engineering across high-throughput streaming, real-time analytics, and large-scale search. - Designed and built a resilient, high-throughput streaming data pipeline using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink(on AWS EMR) (stateful stream processing), Cassandra, and AWS S3 — implementing a scalable data lake ingestion layer for the largest commodities/derivatives exchange globally, through end-to-end Flink operator profiling and tuning to sustain 60K msg/sec at peak load, built reactive query services (Jersey, RxJava + Cassandra) with HAProxy/Consul-based auto-scaling for high-availability reads in order to enable market data queryability within 5 minutes of generation. - Architected search infrastructure handling 40x product catalog growth (300K → 12M SKUs) for an eCommerce platform using Golang and Elasticsearch on AWS — enabling complex attribute-based and molecular structure search at scale. - Architected a pluggable real-time analytics platform connecting diverse data sources, applying custom rules on streaming data, and surfacing insights via Elasticsearch — enabling near-real-time data quality monitoring at scale.

Project Manager at 3DPLM Software Solutions Limited, Feb 2012 - Jan 2014 · 2 yrs, - Led delivery of a PLM system integration for an aerospace major — architecting the integration layer between the ENOVIA PLM system and external systems, managing a team of ~30 engineers. - Co-architected and managed delivery of product customizations for engineering process workflows; developed Bill of Materials and Change Management features for multiple enterprise customers.

Group Leader at 3DPLM Software Solutions Limited, Oct 2009 - Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Senior Software Engineer at 3DPLM Software Solutions Limited, Oct 2008 - Dec 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics engg., University of Mysore

Model English School Dombivli.

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