Amit S
Software Engineer at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit S is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable backend systems and cloud-native data tools, now at Meta after a senior engineering stint at Cloudera. He co-founded and led engineering and operations across continents at Peritus.ai, blending startup agility with enterprise-grade delivery. His hands-on work includes contributions to the popular open-source Hue SQL query assistant—fixing security and compatibility issues such as TLSv1.2 enforcement and Spark history link bugs—reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and secure integrations. Amit’s background spans foundational roles from NIH to Oracle and multiple leadership positions, giving him deep exposure to distributed systems, data platforms, and operational excellence. Based in San Jose and holding a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and rigorous technical discipline. Colleagues describe him as a durability-minded engineer who pairs code-level contributions with product-aware system design.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (15)
mtls10
eventlet10
tls1210
python10
back-end-development10
tls1310
libtls10
database9
security9
editor9
sql9
editors9
databases9
data-warehouse8
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/hue
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:205 reviews, 6 commits, 89 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amit made several contributions focused on improving the functionality and security of the Hue SQL query assistant. They fixed a bug related to Spark application history links when using Knox and modified the code to allow only TLSv1.2 ciphers. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to caching in the file browser and included a change to disable a middleware for python2 in the project. In addition, the user was also involved in patching and integrating the eventlet library.
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
amitsrivastava/hue
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
querysqlservermysqlassistantsql
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