Staff Software Engineer @ Astronomer · SMIEEE
Backend · Systems · Infrastructure · SRE
{
"name" : "Goutam Tadi",
"role" : "Staff Software Engineer",
"company" : "Astronomer",
"focus" : ["Kubernetes", "Infrastructure", "SRE", "Backend Services"],
"patents" : 3,
"publications": 2,
"conferences" : ["PostgresConf 2018", "pgconf.in 2019"],
"mission" : "run services reliably, at scale, without 3am pages"
}| 🚀 Customer Scale | 💰 ARR Growth | 📜 Patents | ☁️ Clouds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20x since joining | 6x since joining | 3 granted | Azure · GCP · AWS |
Infrastructure & Orchestration
Languages
Data & Platforms
▸ Astronomer Staff Software Engineer Aug 2022 – Present (Remote)
├─ Scaled customer base 20x, contributed to 6x ARR growth
├─ Maintain & develop backend services, ops, and multi-cloud infra
├─ Create migration plans and architectural decisions for reliability at scale
├─ Incident response, mentorship, sprint planning
└─ Alerts and SRE practices for Airflow-critical services
▸ Astronomer Senior Software Engineer Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 (San Jose, CA)
├─ Core infra & SRE across Azure, AWS, GCP
├─ Go-based backend services
└─ Kubernetes cluster setup and customer environment lifecycle
▸ Salesforce Senior Member of Technical Staff Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 (San Francisco)
├─ Designed and developed Kubernetes Operators
├─ Developer-friendly onboarding frameworks
└─ BDD end-to-end testing
▸ Pivotal Software Senior Software Engineer Aug 2017 – Jan 2020 (Palo Alto, CA)
├─ Greenplum for Kubernetes — K8s Operator for distributed DB clusters
├─ Deep expertise: Docker, Linux syscalls, cgroups, namespaces
├─ GemFire & Spark hi-speed data connectors
└─ Greenplum Debian packaging on PPA Launchpad
▸ Pivotal Software Software Engineer Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 (Palo Alto, CA)
└─ Apache HAWQ on Ambari integration
▸ Tata Consultancy Systems Engineer — Big Data Jan 2012 – Aug 2014
├─ MapReduce / Hadoop / Hive / IBM BigInsights
└─ Trained 50+ associates on the Hadoop ecosystem
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Configuration Container for Container Orchestration Platform | Stores user config files via persistent volumes; manages container lifecycle in orchestration environments |
| Light-weight Mirror Container | Efficient container mirroring for orchestrated workloads |
| Database Segment Load Balancer | Intelligent load distribution across distributed database segments |
Publications
- Pivotal Greenplum® for Kubernetes: Demonstration of Managing Greenplum Database on Kubernetes
- Hadoop — Combined File Input Format Implementation
Conference Talks
- 🎤 PostgresConf 2018 — Greenplum Kontained: Coordinating many PostgreSQL instances on Kubernetes
- 🎤 pgconf.in 2019 — Session Proposal #21
Blog Posts @ Pivotal Engineering
- Greenplum for Kubernetes — Kubebuilder Lessons
- Rapid Development using Minikube
- Greenplum for Kubernetes Operator
- Getting Started with Greenplum-Spark
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| M.S. Computer Science | California State University — Long Beach | 2014–2016 |
| B.Tech Electronics & Communications | Vignan Engineering College | 2007–2011 |
"Making systems reliable, one deployment at a time."