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Manoj Katragadda

@manojbabu

Principal Engineer specializing in data platforms, MLOps, and AI agents, with expertise in database internals and open-source development.

India

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What I'm looking for

I feel fulfilling, when my job involves solving some problem which directly or indirectly impacts or to be specific makes lives of people better for good. Also, personally, If the job has good technical depth, I love to get my hands dirty.

At ZEROTOONE AI, I built Zest, an MLOps platform with multi-tenant workspace isolation and a declarative Python SDK spanning the machine learning lifecycle. I also designed a reusable PySpark ETL framework that reduced per-pipeline code by 75%.

At AIRASIA BERHAD, I developed and open-sourced Talaria’s Apache Spark connector, and built data mesh and experimentation platform components. I’ve also contributed to and maintained Talaria, and built Bob, an open-source voice interface for AI coding agents.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Principal Platform Engineer

ZeroToOne AI

Apr 2025 - Apr 2026 (1 year)

Built Zest, an MLOps platform with multi-tenant workspace isolation and a declarative Python SDK covering the ML lifecycle. Designed a composable PySpark ETL framework and reduced runtime of a daily Spark MERGE job from 60 minutes to 4 minutes on a 2-billion-row Apache Iceberg table.

MLOps Python Spark Apache Iceberg Kubernetes Airflow ETL PySpark S3 Ray Redis

Principal Engineer

AirAsia Berhad

Sep 2019 - Feb 2024 (4 years 5 months)

Refactored Talaria's ingestion and flush engines, developed and open-sourced the Talaria Apache Spark connector, and built integrations for Google Cloud Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and GCS. Implemented a data mesh using Airflow, Spark, Apache Iceberg, Trino, Cube.js, and Backstage, and built an experimentation platform with a Go CQRS framework.

Java Spark Apache Iceberg Airflow Kubernetes Terraform GCP Go CQRS Lua NestJS Redis Pub Sub Backstage Trino CubeJS

Data Engineer II

Honestbee

Jun 2018 - Mar 2019 (9 months)

Built ETL pipelines using Airflow, Spark, AWS Glue, and Redshift, including a custom Airflow operator for AWS Glue jobs. Worked with data scientists to schedule model runs in Airflow and deploy model-serving APIs on Kubernetes.

Airflow Spark AWS Glue Redshift Kubernetes ETL

Senior Software Engineer

Zivame

Aug 2015 - May 2018 (2 years 9 months)

Developed Spark-based product recommendations using customer preferences and behavior. Led the product-search migration from Solr to Elasticsearch and implemented Nginx caching to improve website performance.

Spark Solr Elasticsearch Nginx Java ELK Stack