Vijay Kiran is a Principal Software Engineer skilled in Big Data Engineering, with a passion for Scala, Clojure, and Agile methodologies. His career has been built around the engineering side of data: the distributed systems, pipelines, and tooling that make large-scale data platforms work in practice, and the open development practices that make those systems trustworthy.

At Soda, Vijay leads the open-source data reliability tooling, working on software that helps data teams test, observe, and trust the quality of their data. Data quality and data observability have become core concerns for modern data platforms, and his role puts him right in the middle of that shift, bridging day-to-day open source development with the broader conversation about how teams keep data pipelines reliable.

Beyond the code, Vijay brings a business lens to engineering leadership. He holds an Executive MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, a background that complements his deep technical experience when making build-versus-buy, architecture, and team decisions.

Vijay lives in the Netherlands with his wife Neha and his dog, Bowerick Wowbagger, a name that will be familiar to fans of Douglas Adams.