Vinoth Chandar is the creator and PMC chair of the Apache Hudi project, a seasoned distributed systems/database engineer, and a dedicated entrepreneur. He has deep experience with databases, distributed systems, and data systems at the planet scale, strengthened through his work at Oracle, Linkedin, Uber, and Confluent.

During his time at Uber, he created Hudi, which pioneered transactional data lakes as we know them today, to solve unique speed and scale needs for Uber’s massive data platform. Most recently, Vinoth founded Onehouse - a cloud-native managed lakehouse to make data lakes easier, faster, and cheaper.

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