Hema Padma Gowda

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CTO at Vellum Commerce | ex-Nvidia

Vellum Commerce
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
NIT Surathkal
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

Currently at Vellum Commerce, where I lead data pipelines with a team of 16. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 2. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Second opinions on Python decisions
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  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
PythonIcebergKafkadbtSnowflakeSQL

Experience

  1. CTO
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Vellum Commerce · 3 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the dbt service that now handles 84 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 14 a week to 3.
  2. Data Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Oct 2023
    Nvidia · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Taught SQL to 107 non-analysts.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2022
    Persistent Systems · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
    Oracle · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew the data platform team from 6 to 30 engineers.
  5. Data Engineer
    Mar 2013 - Nov 2016
    Postman · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 156 non-analysts.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2026

Built with dbt and Iceberg. 2907 people used it last year.

Data pipelines benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Kafka and SQL on real workloads.

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Education

  1. NIT Surathkal
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    1999 - 2003

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