Abhinav Sharma
Software Engineer at Facebook
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhinav Sharma is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale systems, currently designing and implementing exabyte-scale storage at Facebook. He combines deep academic credentials—a MS in Computer Science from UIUC (3.96/4.0) and a top-ranked BE in ECE—with hands-on expertise across storage, databases, embedded networking, and applied algorithms. Prior roles include architecting cross-platform apps and database sync optimizations at Click Labs and feature work for Cisco Nexus switches, showing versatility from low-level systems to product-facing services. He has a track record of measurable performance improvements (e.g., reducing sync time from 180s to 4s) and implementing domain-specific algorithms like guitar sound matching and image-processing pipelines. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he brings both production-scale engineering at hyperscale and a penchant for algorithmic problem solving. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who blends rigorous technical foundations with creative, results-driven solutions.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 9.46/10, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 9.46/10 at Punjab Engineering CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi
Github Skills (22)
postgresql10
percona10
mysql10
facebook10
oracle10
ps10
database10
kudu8
apache-kudu8
paxos8
apache7
raft7
benchmark4
concurrent4
mysql-cluster4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abhinav04sharma/kuduraft
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
A Raft Library in C++ based on the Raft implementation in Apache Kudu
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
kudupaxosapacheapache-kuduraft
abhinav04sharma/mysql-5.6
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:42 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 8 months
oracledatabasemysqlfacebook
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