# Vinoth Chandar

> Vinoth Chandar is the founder and CEO of Onehouse and the original creator and PMC chair of Apache Hudi. His work spans database replication at Oracle, Voldemort at LinkedIn, data infrastructure at Uber and stream processing at Confluent. Onehouse applies that experience to managed, interoperable data infrastructure that runs in customers’ own environments.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Onehouse
- **Organizations:** Onehouse, Apache Software Foundation, Uber, Confluent, LinkedIn, Oracle, Box
- **Education:** Undergraduate engineering degree in information technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Master’s degree in computer science, The University of Texas at Austin
- **Known for:** Original creator of Apache Hudi at Uber., PMC chair of Apache Hudi, a top-level Apache project since May 2020., Founded Onehouse, which announced a $35 million Series B in June 2024.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2011** — Worked on database streaming and replication at Oracle after graduate study at UT Austin.
- **2011-2014** — Worked on LinkedIn’s Voldemort distributed key-value store and led the project.
- **2014-2019** — Worked at Uber on data infrastructure and mobile/network performance.
- **2016** — Created Hudi at Uber to bring transactional updates and incremental processing to data lakes.
- **2017** — Hudi was open sourced; co-authored Uber’s March 11 technical introduction.
- **After Uber** — Worked at Confluent on streaming infrastructure, including Kafka/Streams and ksqlDB.
- **2020** — Apache established Hudi as a top-level project and appointed Chandar chair on May 20.
- **2021** — Founded Onehouse.
- **2022** — Publicly introduced Onehouse on February 2 with an $8 million seed round from Greylock and Addition.
- **2024** — Announced a $35 million Series B led by Craft Ventures on June 26.
- **2025** — Co-authored the May launch announcement for Spark and SQL on Onehouse’s Quanton engine.
- **2026** — Introduced Onehouse AI Gateway in September and continued publishing commentary on open data infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Original creator of Apache Hudi at Uber.
- PMC chair of Apache Hudi, a top-level Apache project since May 2020.
- Founded Onehouse, which announced a $35 million Series B in June 2024.
- Led work on the Voldemort key-value store at LinkedIn.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Published October 14 commentary arguing that open-format adoption requires customer pressure on closed defaults; published an October 21 guide to Spark on Kubernetes.
- **2026-09** — Announced Onehouse AI Gateway on September 30, combining model routing and MCP tool access with shared controls.
- **2026-07** — Announced the LakeBase-to-Lakegres rename on July 2.
- **2026-06** — Filed Apache Hudi’s board report covering Hudi 1.2.0, with 43 committers and 20 PMC members reported.

## Links

- Website: https://bytearray.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinothchandar
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/byte_array
- GitHub: https://github.com/vinothchandar

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