Engineering Leadership · Data Platforms · Open Source

Building data infrastructure at scale.

I'm Vignesh Chandramohan — currently building DoorDash Data Platform, previously led engineering at Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics. I have built critical distributed systems and led high performing engineering teams. Passionate about stream processing, table formats, and the open-source communities building tomorrow's modern data stacks.

Apache Iceberg Apache Spark Stream Processing SlateDB contributor Engineering Management
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DoorDash Data Platform
Engineering Manager, Analytical Frameworks

Enabling engineers, analysts and data scientists to build and manage analytical workflows — declarative batch and streaming ETLs, metric semantic layers, feature store ingestion, and marketing segmentation.

Apache Spark Apache Iceberg Metrics ML Feature Store Customer 360
Microsoft Azure
Engineering Manager, Azure Stream Analytics

A SQL-based, managed stream processing service. Enables azure and Fabric customers to build near real-time analytics, and streaming ingestion to data lake. Mission critical internal and external streaming workloads run on the service.

Delta Lake Kafka Automated Observability
Open Source
Talks
AI Council 2025 · MLOps & Platforms Track
Internals of SlateDB: An Embedded Key Value Store Built On Object Storage

A deep dive into SlateDB's architecture - object store primitives it relies on, and the properties it offers.

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Seattle Iceberg Meetup
Apache Iceberg at DoorDash

A short talk on how we use Apache Iceberg at DoorDash and the challenges we faced.

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Available to speak on data platform architecture, stream processing, Iceberg, metrics and engineering leadership.Reach out →

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