Amlan Nayak
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmlan Nayak is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, databases, and ML infrastructure, currently working on streaming SQL for BigQuery at Google. He has a track record at Meta/Facebook of shipping reliability and performance features—driving a 99.9% reliability improvement for a large ingestion pipeline and rolling out fleet-wide overload protection in Thrift—alongside deep C++ and concurrency work in widely used open-source projects like folly and fbthrift. Comfortable from low-level performance tooling to end-to-end product development, he co-founded a SaaS startup focused on multimodal data curation with LLMs and helped onboard early customers. He enjoys mentoring junior engineers and translating performance telemetry into actionable system improvements, and his contributions include novel autotuning and queue-observer enhancements that reveal thread-level behavior for debugging and efficiency gains.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (12)
folly10
c-language10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
concurrency10
multithreading9
system-design9
debugging9
algorithms9
unit-testing8
github6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/folly
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Amlan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `folly` library by implementing and modifying features related to the `Codel` queuing discipline. They added methods to dynamically update `Codel` parameters, enabling runtime adjustments for fine-tuning load shedding. Furthermore, the user introduced and integrated a `WorkerProvider` interface within the `QueueObserver`, enabling collection of thread IDs, primarily for backtrace collection. The code changes indicate expertise in C++ and concurrent programming within a high-performance library context.
cpp
facebook/fbthrift
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amlan primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the Thrift project, focusing on performance and reliability. They added features to record and collect OS thread IDs within the ThreadManager for debugging purposes. Furthermore, they implemented the capture and logging of queueing times and queue timeouts in responses, along with introducing related metadata structs. The user also made adjustments to the AdaptiveConcurrency controller, introducing a minimum target RTT and configuring target RTT sampling.
cppthrift
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