Amitabh Das
SDE 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmitabh Das is a systems-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems, currently an SDE II at AWS. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University where his CACTUS Lab thesis on high-performance model serving from relational databases—covering automated memory allocation, data co-location, and buffer management—was published in PVLDB. His background spans foundational work at Oracle MySQL and contributions to the widely used mysql-connector-python project, fixing critical transaction, data-type, and SSL issues that improved stability for Python clients. Proficient in C, C++, Python, Go and modern data tools, he combines production-grade systems development with research-grade database internals expertise. Based in Seattle, he is especially interested in storage engines, OS-level performance, and distributed systems, and has a track record of turning deep systems research into practical, deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.00, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.00 at Arizona State UniversityPre University Boards, Electronics, 95.5%, Pre University Boards, Electronics, 95.5% at CMR Group of InstitutionsBachelor's Degree, Information Science/Studies, 8.66/10, Bachelor's Degree, Information Science/Studies, 8.66/10 at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
Bengali, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (12)
error-handling10
python10
database-design10
mysql10
sql9
debug9
debugging9
testing8
algorithm6
backtracking6
subset-sum6
relational-databases6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mysql/mysql-connector-python
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
MySQL Connector/Python is implementing the MySQL Client/Server protocol completely in Python. No MySQL libraries are needed, and no compilation is necessary to run this Python DB API v2.0 compliant driver. Documentation & Download: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:78 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Amitabh primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the MySQL Connector/Python library. Their work involved resolving issues related to transaction methods, array operations within the MySQLx library, and fixing auto-generation of IDs. Additionally, the user addressed problems with fetching specific data types, incorrect operator names, and issues with the SSL connection. The user's work has a direct impact on the library's functionality and overall stability by addressing critical errors and improving the data handling capabilities.
apicompilationpythonmysqldev
amitab/Recommendare
Nov 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
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