Thanigai Vellore

Contact Thanigai Vellore www.linkedin.com/in/ VP of Engineering at Fanatics thanigaivellore (LinkedIn) San Francisco Bay Area techkites.blogspot.com (Blog) Summary Top Skills - Engineering leader with 20+ years of progressive experience Cloud Computing specializing in building large, highly scalable systems. Distributed Systems - Extensive hands-on experience in building high-traffic B2C e- Architecture commerce, web, cloud and big data architectures. - Hands-on technologist and leader with strong focus on architecture, Languages distributed systems, scalability, resiliency, performance and English (Native or Bilingual) extensibility. Tamil (Native or Bilingual) - High-output oriented, ambitious, strategic practical thinker Hindi (Limited Working) with excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and Certifications organizational skills. Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate Cloudera Certified Developer for Experience Apache Hadoop Microsoft Certified Technology Fanatics Specialist: Distributed Applications 2 years 3 months Endeca Developer Certification VP of Engineering Leadership Mindsets April 2024 - Present (8 months) San Francisco Bay Area Honors-Awards Leading Platform Engineering at Fanatics Employee of the quarter * Cloud - Compute Infra, Cloud Native Platforms Innovation Excellence * Developer - Developer Foundations, Infrastructure & Platforms HTML5 Contest Winner * Data - Storage Infra, Data Platforms (Streaming, Big Data, BI, AI/ML), Data Governance & Privacy Publications * Reliability - SRE, Performance Engineering, DBA and Incident Management Information Systems for the Real Time Control of an Integrated Head of Data Architecture and Platforms Production Environment September 2022 - April 2024 (1 year 8 months) Big Data meets Fine Art San Francisco Bay Area Information Driven Systems in SMT Manufacturing A Pragmatic Neural Network Vation Ventures Approach for SMT Yield Prediction Advisor - Innovation Council April 2023 - Present (1 year 8 months) Patents San Francisco Bay Area Page 1 of 5

DISCOVERING AND PRESENTING Airbnb DÉCOR HARMONIZED WITH A Engineering Leadership DÉCOR STYLE October 2019 - September 2022 (3 years) Method and System for Image San Francisco Bay Area Discovery via Navigation of Dimensions Fanatics, Inc. Distinguished Engineer (Sr. Director) December 2015 - October 2019 (3 years 11 months) San Francisco Bay Area - Responsible for architecting and building high performance, resilient, multi- tenant e-commerce platform in the public cloud - Own and drive end-to-end architecture decisions including solutions, systems, infrastructure and deployment architecture for the e-commerce platform - Built scalable, reliable and fault tolerant micro services and distributed platforms that thrive in an eventual consistency world - Hands-on experience building and scaling data platforms on top of distributed systems like Cassandra, Kafka, Elastic Search, Druid, etc Gap Inc. Principal Architect July 2015 - December 2015 (6 months) - Lead architect responsible for defining and driving the technology roadmap initiatives for building the next generation micro-services based ecommerce platform in the cloud Art.com 9 years Principal Architect January 2014 - June 2015 (1 year 6 months) Emeryville, CA - Tech lead on the art.com labs initiative to transform innovative concepts/ ideas to working scalable products - Led the design, development and production roll-out of a large scale stream processing engine to compute trend aggregations on clickstream data using Spark (Spark Streaming) - Implemented an end-to-end clickstream analytics platform on Hadoop using Apache Flume, Apache Crunch, Apache Oozie, Hive and Impala Sr. Software Architect January 2012 - December 2013 (2 years) Page 2 of 5

Emeryville, CA - Led the design and implementation of “Near Real Time” Semantic Search Indexing pipeline using HBase, Lily HBase Indexer, SolrCloud - Researched and developed a distributed visual search engine which supports multi-color search/harmonization, semantic clustering, visual similarity, etc - Evaluated, adopted and evangelized new technologies and frameworks and seamlessly integrated them into the enterprise stack. - Defined and implemented the cloud infrastructure for development and production environments for Big Data stack in AWS public cloud - Designed and developed a framework for building RESTful API services with support for configuration management, logging, caching, data access and unit testing - Developed a self-directed graph database (in neo4j) and RESTful service for capturing various user interests and relationships. Software Architect July 2006 - December 2011 (5 years 6 months) - Led a massive website re-architecture project that involved retiring several legacy systems to create a scalable multi-tenant e-commerce website platform. - Provided architectural mentorship and guidance in developing the web- services framework based on .NET WCF with support for REST and SOAP services, unit testing (Nunit), mocking (Rhino Mocks), data service (entity framework), LINQ, configuration management, aspect orientation (Postsharp), dependency injection (Castle Windsor), logging and continuous integration (Jenkins). - Retired legacy SQL full-text based search and headed a multi-year project in the implementation of parametric search using Endeca on 3 websites (Art.com, Allposters.com and ArtistRising.com). - Designed a scalable event-driven framework for automated keyword generation service for SEM, currently supporting more than 100 billion keywords and 50 geo-targets. AllPosters.com Sr. Programmer Analyst October 2004 - June 2006 (1 year 9 months) Emeryville, CA - Designed and developed several end-to-end features of the website (multi- language support, cross-selling module, gallery page redesign, etc.) in ASP.NET webforms. Page 3 of 5

- Lead developer on the migration of a legacy CRM application (VB6) to a .NET 2.0 based application, using composite UI application blocks, supporting complex interfaces made of loosely coupled components. - Developed web based reporting tools for affiliate extranet systems using n- tier design using ASP.NET, ASMX web services and SQL server. Sanmina-SCI 3 years 4 months Sr. Software Engineer July 2002 - October 2004 (2 years 4 months) - Headed the design and development of an integrated shop floor control system using ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, Visual C# .NET, Web Services. - Developed a web based system using ASP.NET 1.1 for real time workflow tracking and monitoring of defect levels through standardized quality metrics. - Studied and developed the functional specifications for a production monitoring system for monitoring the performance of equipment and assembly lines through vendor-independent CAMX (Computer Aided Manufacturing using XML using SOAP message broker) interface standards. - Developed a web based reporting tool (using ASP.NET, C#.NET, SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services) for sharing consolidated as well as detailed reports on production, equipment and capacity utilization metrics Research Associate July 2001 - July 2002 (1 year 1 month) - Developed a web based quality reporting system in ASP.NET with a multi- dimensional OLAP database backend for viewing reports on defects, FPY, DPU and SPC charts. - Developed .NET windows services for creating real time closed loop process control on feedback from inline AOI and AXI inspection equipment on ‘out-of- control’ conditions - Developed a windows-forms based system using VB.NET and SQL Stored Procedures to automate the process of comparing BOMs and preparation of material assessment reports. Flextronics Research Asscociate August 2000 - June 2001 (11 months) - Developed a centralized document management tool using ASP and SQL Server Stored Procedures for online availability of documents like process instructions, ECOs, process deviations, and visual aids Page 4 of 5

- Developed a generic decision support tool in Visual Basic to serve as a guide to carry out the qualification experiments. Education University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business High Impact Leadership · (2017 - 2017) State University of New York at Binghamton MS, Industrial Engineering · (2000 - 2002) University of Madras BS, Mechanical Engineering · (1996 - 2000) Boston Matriculation · (1993 - 1996) Page 5 of 5