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Principal Software Engineer @ Snowflake | Distributed Systems | Databases

About

In my current tenure at Snowflake, As a Principle Engineer, I have focused on building high-impact efficiency tools for the CXE team, with a primary emphasis on streamlining Cortex Search API workflows and improving overall product quality. I led the optimization of our CI/CD infrastructure, resulting in accelerated deployment cycles and more robust feedback mechanisms. These improvements have directly enhanced our support engineering capabilities, allowing for more accurate and rapid resolution of customer escalations. Additionally, I serve as a Core Member of the AI Adoption initiative, where I collaborate with multiple stakeholders to implement AI-driven efficiencies into our coding, release, and testing frameworks across all CXE applications. Previously, at Fiddler AI, I led efforts to develop internal tooling that accelerated product releases and quality assurance. I designed and implemented scalability and upgrade testing frameworks, not just for validation but to automate and simplify performance monitoring and release workflows. These tools played a crucial role in ensuring seamless ML model deployments, reinforcing key principles like observability, explainability, and compliance. By integrating Python, Golang, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies, I have consistently delivered automation-first solutions that enhance engineering efficiency, minimize manual effort, and drive operational excellence.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

cursor

github copilot

Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, Aug 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Snowflake, I've architected, developed, and deployed critical tools and robust testing frameworks for the Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) team. My solo contributions have directly enhanced operational efficiency, streamlined internal processes, and elevated product quality: • Architected and deployed critical tools for the Customer Experience Engineering (CXE) team at Snowflake. • Led AI adoption across multiple teams, enhancing operational efficiency and product quality. • Designed a comprehensive tools for validating complex ETL pipelines, improving internal processes. • Developed an end-to-end test automation framework for Cortex search APIs, integrating seamlessly with Jenkins CI.

Staff Software Engineer at Fiddler AI, Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Fiddler AI, where we empower customers to deploy ML models with confidence through cutting-edge solutions for observability, explainability, and compliance, I served as the sole engineer, driving product quality, release integrity, and foundational tool development. My key contributions included: Release Engineering: Engineered a high-integrity CI/CD orchestration layer that automated the end-to-end release lifecycle, ensuring the seamless delivery of ML observability services with zero-downtime deployment gates. Systems Resiliency & Scaling: Architected a distributed performance and upgrade-compatibility engine to validate system behavior at enterprise scale, ensuring backend stability across complex microservice migrations. Foundational Infrastructure: Designed and maintained a unified developer-platform toolkit that standardized core utilities and automated infrastructure provisioning, significantly reducing engineering toil and increasing development velocity.

Consulting - Staff Software Engineer (DevProd) at Redpanda Data, Sep 2023 - Dec 2023 · 4 mos, Remote, • Designed and Developed the test automation framework for the Redpanda-Apache Flink connector. • Implemented quality assurance processes to ensure seamless integration of the connector. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize testing procedures and enhance product reliability. Redpanda is the most complete, Apache Kafka®-compatible streaming data platform, designed from the ground up to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate. Free from ZooKeeper™ and JVMs, it prioritizes an end-to-end developer experience with a huge ecosystem of connectors, configurable tiered storage, and more.

Software Engineering Manager at RisingWave Labs, May 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, All about Performance & Reliability Engineering - Providing hands-on leadership to a team of 4-6 engineers and ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of our Performance & Quality Engineering efforts. - Accountable for defining quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), successfully achieving critical milestones and charting the team's roadmap to success. - Devised and implemented the Performance Test Framework, demonstrating strong architectural skills and development expertise. - Led and contributed to designing and developing TPCH, Nexmark, and YCSB benchmark frameworks for the RisingWave database, conducting a comparative analysis against Apache Flink.

Staff Software Engineer at Imperva, Sep 2019 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, I have been to Imperva through the Cloudvector acquisition. - Designed, Architected, and developed the test frameworks for System and Performance testing. - Worked with API security features like API Discovery, API Catalog, API Reports etc. - Led the team to own the quality of the product for every release CloudVector is enabling organizations to move beyond the gateway and firewall with the industry's first full-featured API Threat Protection platform. Only CloudVector is able to automatically and continuously discover APIs, monitor for deviant behavior, and secure data from exfiltration to prevent data breaches.

Education

Engineer's degree, Electronics and Communications, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/sumittal