Akshay Sarma
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Sarma is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale big data and streaming systems, currently based in Sunnyvale and leading platform engineering at Yahoo. He built and open-sourced Bullet, a high-performance real-time query engine that lets teams run SQL-like queries over live streams without storing data, and has presented the project at major data conferences. His expertise spans Hadoop ecosystem tools (Pig, Hive, HBase, Oozie), Spark, Kafka, Storm, Flink and sketching algorithms for in-memory approximate analytics, enabling pipelines that handle billions of events and terabytes of data. Equally comfortable across the stack, he has shipped front-end and web framework work (Ember, Node, Django) alongside backend ETL, continuous delivery and data governance systems. Known for squeezing down latency and improving data quality at scale, he also has a track record of inventing efficient sessionization and ETL patterns that reduce persistent storage needs.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at City University of New York City CollegeMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
Tamil, Malayalam, English
Github Skills (60)
data-stream10
storm10
avro10
apache-storm10
ember-cli10
bullet10
hosts10
functional-testing10
webservice10
java10
real-time-data10
query-engine10
stream-processing10
backend10
querying10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bullet-db/bullet-bql
Jul 2018 - Jan 2022
A SQL-like query language to write Bullet queries instead of JSON
Contributions:16 releases, 34 reviews, 64 commits in 3 years 6 months
query-languagesql-like
bullet-db/bullet-kafka
Sep 2017 - Jan 2022
The Apache Kafka PubSub implementation pluggable into the Bullet Service and Backend
Contributions:21 releases, 13 reviews, 79 commits in 4 years 4 months
apache-kafkabackendpubsubbulletbullet-kafka
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