About Me

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Venkataraman Thyagarajan

Lead Engineer — Data Streaming & Cloud Platform

Mr. Cooper | Chennai, India

🟢 Open to Opportunities

🎯 Key Impact Highlights

  • $5M+ platform value delivered through Customer Data Platform serving 10M+ users

  • Zero downtime migrations across 5+ critical infrastructure projects

  • Led teams of 4–5 engineers while mentoring 15+ developers across the organization

  • 200+ data tables unified from 10+ sources with 99.9% uptime SLA

Hello! I'm Venkat

I'm a Lead Engineer at Mr. Cooper, building resilient, scalable, and secure platforms that power real-time decision-making across the enterprise. My focus lies at the intersection of data streaming, cloud transformation, and engineering leadership — designing systems that make information flow seamlessly, reliably, and meaningfully.

Over the past 7+ years, I've helped transform complex, legacy processes into modern, event-driven architectures that drive measurable business outcomes. My work has spanned data streaming, platform engineering, and large-scale cloud adoption — always guided by a principle: build systems that last, and teams that grow with them.

As an engineer and leader, I value clarity in architecture, simplicity in design, and accountability in execution. I enjoy mentoring teams, solving distributed systems challenges, and creating platforms that empower developers to deliver faster and safer.

Work Experience

2021 – Present
Lead Engineer — Data Streaming & Cloud Platform

Mr. Cooper

Led Customer Data Platform serving 10M+ daily users. Executed zero-downtime Confluent Kafka PSC migration. Unified 200+ tables from 10+ sources at 99.9% SLA. Delivered $5M+ platform value. Mentored 15+ engineers.

Kafka
Confluent
Snowflake
Databricks
GCP
2021 – Present
Lead Engineer — Data Streaming & Cloud Platform

Mr. Cooper

Led Customer Data Platform serving 10M+ daily users. Executed zero-downtime Confluent Kafka PSC migration. Unified 200+ tables from 10+ sources at 99.9% SLA. Delivered $5M+ platform value. Mentored 15+ engineers.

Kafka
Confluent
Snowflake
Databricks
GCP
2022 – 2025
Engineer

Mintly

Built AI-driven career coaching and job matching platform from scratch. Achieved 10K+ monthly active users with a 90–100 Lighthouse score end-to-end.

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
2022 – 2025
Engineer

Mintly

Built AI-driven career coaching and job matching platform from scratch. Achieved 10K+ monthly active users with a 90–100 Lighthouse score end-to-end.

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Node.js
2019 – 2021
Senior Engineer — Platform Engineering

Mr. Cooper

Designed reusable Kafka platform libraries for Java and .NET. Built Docker-based connectors and automation tooling that reduced deployment time significantly.

Java
Kafka
Docker
Spring Boot
2019 – 2021
Senior Engineer — Platform Engineering

Mr. Cooper

Designed reusable Kafka platform libraries for Java and .NET. Built Docker-based connectors and automation tooling that reduced deployment time significantly.

Java
Kafka
Docker
Spring Boot
2018 – 2019
Software Engineer

Mr. Cooper

Built the Scout Investor Analytics Portal for loan performance reporting. Developed scalable REST APIs and data ingestion pipelines for financial data.

Java
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
React
2018 – 2019
Software Engineer

Mr. Cooper

Built the Scout Investor Analytics Portal for loan performance reporting. Developed scalable REST APIs and data ingestion pipelines for financial data.

Java
Spring Boot
PostgreSQL
React

Quick Facts

Experience

8+ Years

Building scalable platforms

Tech Focus

Data Streaming

Real-time Systems & Cloud

Current Role

Lead Engineer

At Mr. Cooper

Education

BTech

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Technologies & Skills

Data Streaming

Apache Kafka
Confluent
Kafka Connect
Debezium
Spark Streaming
Elasticsearch

Cloud & Infrastructure

GCP
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes

Data Platform

Snowflake
Databricks
Delta Lake
Apache Spark
dbt

Backend

Java
Spring Boot
Python
FastAPI
GraphQL

Frontend

React
Next.js
TypeScript
MUI

Data Stores & Observability

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Redis
New Relic