Akhil Naik
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkhil Naik is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with a decade of experience building full-stack web and big-data tooling, currently contributing to MuleSoft at Salesforce. He is a long-time contributor and committer to Apache projects—notably Ambari and Hue—where he has improved UI/UX, backend robustness, and SQL query tooling for widely used Hadoop management and query services. Previously a senior engineer at Cloudera/Hortonworks and Huawei, he has led frontend and backend efforts, shipped topology visualization libraries, and acted as an SME for cluster management and support tools. Akhil blends deep practical knowledge of Java, JavaScript/Ember, and Python with hands-on break/fix expertise, mentoring teams while resolving complex production issues. Beyond corporate roles, his ongoing Apache committer work highlights a commitment to open-source reliability and interoperability in large-scale data platforms.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at viswajyothi college of engineering and technology
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Konkani
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Github Skills (22)
debug10
javascript10
python10
ui-design10
uid10
emberjs10
security9
front-end-development9
mako9
editor8
sql8
sql-db8
editors8
ambari8
autocomplete7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ambari
Jan 2018 - Jun 2020
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 54 commits, 105 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Akhil primarily contributed to the UI components and related functionalities of the Apache Ambari project. Their work involved debugging and fixing issues within the Hive views, specifically addressing problems related to deleting saved queries, the cancel button in the upload table, and the Tez view button. Additionally, they modified code related to application routing and settings within the Hive-next views, demonstrating their involvement across multiple parts of the UI framework. Their changes suggest they had a strong understanding of the Ember.js framework used for the UI.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
cloudera/hue
Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 40 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Akhil contributed to the Hue SQL Query Assistant service by addressing several bugs and implementing enhancements related to the user interface and backend functionality. They fixed encoding errors within the SQL editor's variable handling, corrected script execution vulnerabilities within the Share Document UI and other pages, and resolved issues within the Sqoop command execution process. The user also worked on allowing configuration for pysaml, and fixed the issue with the default database redirection. Their work involved modifications to Python and Mako templates.
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
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