Ajantha Bhat
Committer, Apache Polaris (Incubating)
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAjantha Bhat is a software engineer with about a decade of experience building distributed systems and big data platforms, currently contributing to Apache Iceberg, Project Nessie and serving as a Committer on Apache Polaris. He brings deep backend expertise in Java and Scala from his work at Dremio and as a long-time PMC member and committer for Apache CarbonData, where he led features like time travel and transaction management and owned a release. Earlier in his career he implemented L2/L3 networking and security protocols in C (VXLAN, EVPN, IKE‑IPSEC), experience that honed his RFC-driven implementation discipline. At Dremio he’s known for improving Nessie’s CLI/server logic and integrating Nessie with Trino and Iceberg, including reflog and catalog authentication enhancements. He thrives in open source ecosystems and combines low-level protocol rigor with practical data-lake engineering to deliver robust, interoperable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Kannada
Github Skills (27)
apache-spark10
python10
testing10
java10
javas10
sql10
apache-iceberg10
ice10
query-engine10
distributed-database10
cli10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
analytics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1502 reviews, 66 commits, 384 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ajantha's commits primarily focused on adding test cases and removing deprecated actions, particularly related to SparkActions within the Apache Iceberg project. Their work involved modifying test files to cover new functionalities and ensure code quality. The user engaged with the codebase across multiple Spark versions (2.4, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4), demonstrating a proficiency in integrating and adapting code across diverse Spark environments.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
projectnessie/nessie
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Nessie: Transactional Catalog for Data Lakes with Git-like semantics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:707 reviews, 36 commits, 151 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ajantha primarily focused on improving the Nessie CLI and server-side logic. They addressed a pagination issue in the CLI's log command, ensuring all records are fetched correctly. The user also added reflog support, implementing the backend entity and the REST resource. Additionally, they contributed to bug fixes, addressing a typo and a NullPointerException, and also worked on the test cases for verifying the new features.
data-lakesdatatransactionalaws-lambdaspark
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