Dinesh Sundaravadivelu
About Dinesh Sundaravadivelu
Dinesh Sundaravadivelu is a Senior Software Engineer at Coupa Software, specializing in data platforms and analytics.
Company
Dinesh Sundaravadivelu is currently employed at Coupa Software. He works in the capacity of a Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform at Opex Analytics, which is a startup under the aegis of Coupa Software. Dinesh has been with the company since 2019 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Previous Roles
Before joining Coupa Software, Dinesh Sundaravadivelu worked at Cognizant for seven years. He held the position of Senior Associate from 2016 to 2019 and Associate from 2012 to 2016. Prior to his tenure at Cognizant, he worked at Infosys from 2009 to 2012 as a Senior Systems Engineer and had a four-month internship at Infosys Technologies Ltd in 2009. Throughout these roles, Dinesh gained extensive experience in software engineering and data platforms.
Education and Expertise
Dinesh Sundaravadivelu holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from St. Peter's Engineering College. He attended the college from 2005 to 2009. This educational background laid the foundation for his specialized skills in software engineering and data management.
Key Projects and Initiatives
During his tenure at Coupa Software, Dinesh has led several significant projects. He revamped the user access layer of the Enframe product database using Postgres, enhancing data security and scaling data access. He also led the onboarding and data migration to a Redshift cluster for LLama.ai product data, improving large volume data processing and analytics performance. Among other initiatives, he developed a Postgres database configuration tool, created an Anonymized Golden Dataset for scalability testing, and implemented near real-time data ingestion pipelines. Additionally, he introduced parallel processing in existing systems, significantly reducing runtime, and designed multiple dimensional data models for system integrations and data analytics.
Contributions to Data Engineering Community
Beyond his role-specific achievements, Dinesh Sundaravadivelu has contributed to the broader data engineering community. He cross-trained data engineering skills to data scientists through a Bootcamp program and participated in talent acquisition efforts. Furthermore, he presented on data engineering topics at notable institutions including IITs and Math schools, sharing his expertise and insights with the next generation of data scientists and engineers.