Gajendra is a Senior Engineering Leader at Apple, leading real-time data platform engineering for Apple Music, Books, and Podcasts — Flink, Kafka, Cassandra, and RocksDB systems powering the Apple Music knowledge graph. An IEEE Senior Member and BCS Fellow, he authored Is Data Governance Worth It? and Anti-Patterns for NoSQL Databases, speaks regularly on streaming and AI data infrastructure, and has mentored 2,000+ hours on ADPList.

I co-founded and co-chair the ACM Irving Chapter, where I run monthly practitioner-led tech talks and handle communications. I speak regularly on streaming and AI data infrastructure, including keynotes at the Seattle AI & Data Security Summit and BIMA's industry lecture series; in November I'm co-presenting a student tech talk at North Seattle College, where I also hold an advisory role. I've mentored 2,000+ hours on ADPList, authored two books, and peer-review for IEEE Access and Elsevier journals.