In the heart of India’s tech hub, Bangalore, you’ll find our Center of Excellence (CoE), an innovation hub focused on technological advancement. Established in 2014, this center has become a cornerstone of Cloudera’s global strategy, playing a pivotal role in driving the company’s three growth pillars: accelerating enterprise AI, delivering a truly hybrid platform, and enabling modern data architectures. It is an engine of cutting-edge solutions that keep us close to our open source roots, and drive our mission of making data and analytics accessible and easy for everyone.
The Indian Talent Prowess
Over nearly a decade, the Bangalore CoE has grown into a robust hub, housing over 600 employees, primarily in engineering roles, which form the backbone of product innovation and customer support together with the team in Chennai. The other teams responsible for delivering these products include performance engineering, data engineering, storage, control plane, test infrastructure, security, performance, partner certification, release engineering, and site reliability. This diverse range of expertise ensures that our solutions are comprehensive and of the highest quality to support the data journeys of top enterprises globally.
We operate three major engineering centers worldwide in the US, India, and Hungary. This strategic distribution allows Cloudera to drive continuous innovation and provide timely support to its global customer base. Within India, the engineering expertise in Chennai and Bangalore play a strategic role to global growth & progress due to its rich talent pool and historical contributions to open-source projects like Iceberg. The center’s prominence in the open-source community has made it a magnet for top talent.
Our team in Bangalore is instrumental in providing comprehensive cloud support for end-to-end delivery of projects, keeping major releases up to date with the latest features, as well as innovations including features in Cloudera Machine Learning (CML) that empower customers to develop, test, train, and deploy models within their data environments. The team plays a crucial role in delivering features and enhancements through designing and building solutions that accelerate the journey from exploration to production, and scale their Machine Learning workloads.These work toward supporting Generative AI applications for enterprises in a hybrid cloud environment, ensuring that all their data is AI-ready.
Forging ahead with innovations in machine learning and cloud computing, the team has refined flows for Generative AI workloads and developed an alert system for Cloud, which enables customers to achieve significant savings in cloud costs. With the team propelling these advancements, Cloudera retains its foothold as a leader providing cutting-edge machine learning and data science solutions worldwide.
Local Innovation with Global Impact
The impact of our Bangalore CoE extends beyond the borders of India. The team works on global projects that drive significant growth across industries, such as finance, telcos and manufacturing. Solutions engineered here are designed with a global perspective in mind, ensuring they meet the diverse needs of our global and Indian customers.
Cloudera is assisting leading banks, stock exchanges, and top organizations across industries in India by providing the infrastructure needed to analyze the data. This support helps them in cost reduction, increased revenue, and enhanced operational efficiency. These sectors frequently handle large volumes of sensitive data demanding robust security and there is a growing need to manage large and complex data sets with better strategies and infrastructure.
We believe that data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. Our Bangalore and Chennai CoE play a key role in empowering organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. By developing robust and secure data platforms, our team ensures businesses can derive meaningful insights that drive a competitive advantage. From enhancing data governance and security to optimizing data workflows and enabling real-time analytics, our team’s contributions are instrumental in shaping the future of data-driven enterprises.
The center’s ability to handle all facets of software development from ideation to delivery ensures that innovation is continuous. 600+ engineers with a passion for open source technologies, have helped accelerate the enterprise AI and machine learning story for hundreds of customers — across a series of generative AI use cases such as agentic applications on our lakehouse, co-pilots for increased productivity, and text summarization at scale. The unique collocation has also helped customers move to the cloud faster and deploy secure hybrid solutions that empower them to transform data of all types on any public or private cloud into valuable and trusted insights.
Looking ahead, Cloudera plans to continue its investments in the Bangalore CoE, with plans to hire an additional 50 engineers this year alone. The focus will be on developing talent to fuel enterprise AI and hybrid platform capabilities. Despite challenges in finding niche skill sets, Cloudera’s commitment to upskilling and providing growth opportunities remains steadfast.
As Cloudera continues to evolve, the Bangalore CoE will undoubtedly remain at the forefront, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the world of big data and AI.
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