Akash Nilugal
Staff Data Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkash Nilugal is a Staff Data Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in big data platforms, cloud services, and building enterprise data fabrics. He is an Apache CarbonData committer and PMC member with 140+ open-source commits, and has a track record of performance-focused innovations—such as MV time-series indexing, local dictionary compression, and CDC optimizations—that materially improved query speed and storage efficiency. At Visa he architects end-to-end data fabric and unified governance using DBT, Airflow, Kubernetes and DataHub, and previously drove cloud integration and serverless metadata services at Huawei. He blends deep Spark, Presto/Trino, Hive and Hadoop expertise with hands-on systems design (including a CarbonData streamer for real-time ingestion). Akash’s contributions span both product-grade engineering and open-source stewardship, making him adept at translating research-level optimizations into production at scale. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs strong academic performance in ECE with a pragmatic focus on measurable performance and operational simplicity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, CGPA 9.01, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communications Engineering, CGPA 9.01 at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg., MYSORECentral Board Of Secondary Education, 9.8 CGPA, Central Board Of Secondary Education, 9.8 CGPA at Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva Vidya Kendra, AlikePre University College, 98% in PCMB and 4th rank to whole District, Pre University College, 98% in PCMB and 4th rank to whole District at Sri Jagaduru Tontadarya Pre University College, GADAG
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Github Skills (26)
spark10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
data-format10
java10
scala10
carbondata10
high-performance10
database10
data-modeling9
slack9
transform9
dbt-packages8
dbt8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akashrn5/incubator-carbondata
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Mirror of Apache CarbonData
Contributions:783 pushes, 176 branches, 10 comments in 5 years 8 months
carbondatajavaapache
akashrn5/dbt-spark
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
dbt-spark contains all of the code enabling dbt to work with Apache Spark and Databricks
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
databrickssqlapachesparkdbt
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