Senior Staff · Principal Engineer

Arun Ramani

20+ years building distributed systems, developer platforms, and large-scale data infrastructure.

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20+Years experience
14US Patents
4Major companies
2Graduate degrees
Experience

Roles across agentic AI, multi-tenant data platforms, and systems software—five positions at four companies.

Span
2006–Present
Companies
4
Roles
5

2025 – Present

Prezi, Inc.
Feb 2025 – Present
Senior Staff Engineer · Agentic Workflow Team
  • Craft — agentic AI content creation platform (LLM orchestration, agent frameworks)
  • MCP server — cross-platform AI integrations
  • Custom GPT — Prezi features embedded in ChatGPT ecosystem
TypeScript Mastra OpenAI Gemini MCP

2021 – 2025

Imply Data, Inc.
Jun 2021 – Jan 2025
Staff Engineer · Enterprise Services & Data Engineering
  • Imply Polaris — multi-tenant DBaaS on Apache Druid
  • Billing & Metering — usage metering & telemetry microservices
  • Imply Identity — authorization layer, Keycloak extension
  • Open-source Apache Druid contributions
Java Apache Druid Kubernetes AWS Keycloak Stripe

2014 – 2021

Splunk, Inc.
Mar 2018 – May 2021
Principal Engineer · Data Platform
  • SPL2 — next-gen search language (batch/stream, SQL DQL)
  • SPL2 Language Services — query planning & LSP microservices
  • Key-value store microservice (Go, Aurora PostgreSQL)
Java Go C++ Kubernetes AWS
Splunk, Inc.
Jun 2014 – Mar 2018
Engineering Manager · IT Markets Group
  • IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) — monitoring & alerting platform
  • Splunk Insights for Infrastructure (SII) — on-prem & AWS infra monitoring
  • ITSI Modules — data normalization & functional extensions
Python JavaScript React Redux

2006 – 2014

Microsoft Corporation
Aug 2006 – Jun 2014
SDE II · Bing · Azure Commerce · Windows
  • Bing SmartSearch — app & action discovery for Windows
  • OneClip — multi-platform shared clipboard backend
  • Azure Commerce — log processing & real-time analytics on Cosmos
  • Windows kernel — win32k.sys, dxgkrnl.sys, USB filter drivers, touch input
C# .NET Azure C++ Win Kernel
Skills & Technologies

Languages

TypeScript Java Go C++ C# Python

AI / ML

LLM Orchestration Agentic Systems MCP OpenAI Gemini Mastra

Infrastructure

Kubernetes AWS Azure Apache Druid PostgreSQL

Platforms

Microservices DBaaS Distributed Systems LSP / WebSocket
US Patents

Splunk-era inventions in IT observability, entity modeling, and metadata-driven query systems—14 issued patents (newest first).

Granted
14
Years
2019–23
US 11,573,955

Data-determinant query terms

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US 11,657,057

Revising catalog metadata based on parsing queries

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US 11,238,049

Revising catalog metadata based on parsing queries

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US 11,392,578

Automatically generating metadata for a metadata catalog

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US 11,526,511

Monitoring interface for information technology environment

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US 11,093,518

Information technology networked entity monitoring

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US 11,093,564

Identifying configuration parameters for a query using a metadata catalog

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US 11,144,545

Monitoring console for entity detail

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US 11,159,397

Lower-tier application deployment for higher-tier system data monitoring

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US 11,157,498

Query generation using a dataset association record of a metadata catalog

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US 11,200,130

Automatic entity control in a machine data driven service monitoring system

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US 10,417,108

Portable control modules in a machine data driven service monitoring system

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US 10,417,225

Entity detail monitoring console

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US 10,474,680

Automatic entity definitions

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Education
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University of Washington
M.S. in Computer Science
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Electrical Engineering — minors in Computer Science and Mathematics