Summary
Tharun Sikhinam is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience building data platforms and full-stack web applications, currently shaping data initiatives at Oracle in the Greater Seattle Area. He blends deep data engineering expertise—Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and BigQuery—with practical knowledge of SQL/NoSQL/graph stores like Neo4j and ElasticSearch to deliver scalable ETL and analytics solutions. Equally comfortable in the application layer, he has shipped React/Node.js products and instituted DevOps practices using Jenkins and Ansible to streamline CI/CD. His background includes designing real-time logistics and HR systems and automating deployments at scale, and he brings an educator’s clarity from developing a data science course at the University of Washington. Colleagues rely on him for bridging product needs and technical architecture, turning complex data requirements into maintainable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at University of Washington
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at RV College Of Engineering
CBSE - 12th, CBSE - 12th at National Public School