About Me
Get to know the person behind the code
Venkataraman Thyagarajan
Lead Engineer — Data Streaming & Cloud Platform
Mr. Cooper | Chennai, India
🎯 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Cloud & Infrastructure
Data Platform
Backend
Frontend
Data Stores & Observability