Manoj Danane

About Manoj Danane

Curious how an AI sees me? Here’s my persona, summed up by ChatGPT based on our conversations-\"You\'re a sharp, multidimensional thinker with the mind of an engineer, the heart of a coach, and the soul of a strategist.Simply put: you\'re a high-IQ, high-EQ force who blends analytical rigor with human insight — and makes it look effortless.\"An Engineering leader with the right mix of technology and business acumen. A leader with natural analytical thinking in identifying the problems and opportunities that add maximum value and prevent disasters. Change agent, influencer, and evangelist with the focus on making the ideas a reality. I am leading and managing teams who work on high-scale data applications using Big Data technologies. The Hadoop Cluster Platform has over nodes that process petabyte-scale data.

Experience

1. Director, Big Data & Analytics

   PubMatic

   Nov 2012 — Present · Redwood City, CA, US

   Leading multiple teams of smart engineers with expertise on data technologies. Working on delivering high scale business critical data platform solutions using various Big Data technologies. Steaming and batch ingestion using Kafka and Spark; ETL using Spark over yarn and HDFS, SnowFlake data warehouse, GPU DB Solutions for ad hoc high scale experimentation, Rest API using Spring boot, docker. Worked in CTO group on various technology and product initiatives on ideation and evangelizing to take it to production. Architected and rolled out of micros service architecture with REST APIs, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. I am proud to be part of every transition that we have done and the journey we are on. Worked on high scale, distributed platform for Inventory Quality and Ad Quality. Ad quality Platform involves catering to daily 45 billion request, processing pipe line and decisioning in near real time to validate the ad to be served. Inventory quality platform validates each and every request flowing through system and make a real time decision about fraud. This involves integration with third party systems, data processing and reporting. PubMatic is a leading company in Internet advertising, which provides a SAS solution to premium websites (Publishers) for monetising their inventory.

Education

• C-DAC, ACTS, Pune

  DAC

  2005 — 2006

• Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Javascript
• Apache Spark
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Design Patterns
• Mybatis
• Docker
• Sql
• Linux
• Primefaces
• Hibernate
• Jsf
• Struts
• Ejb
• Java
• Spring Framework
• Xml
• Oracle
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Big Data Analytics
• Richfaces
• Oop
• Spring
• Web Services
• Ajax
• Mysql
• Rest Webservices
• Core Java
• Jboss Seam
• Cassandra