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title: "Sudarshan Shubakar - Consulting Member of Technical Staff in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sudarshan Shubakar, Staff Engineer | Distributed Systems · Kafka · Flink · Kubernetes · OCI · AWS | Cloud-Native Platform & AI Infrastructure | Open to Senior/Staff Roles based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes grok, ollama, and Cerebras. Explore public work links including medium."
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# Sudarshan Shubakar on Tal

## 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\.

## Public links

- medium: https://medium\.com/@\_sudarshans

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