Ankur Pathela
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnkur Pathela is a Staff Software Engineer in Menlo Park with 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and operational tooling. At Meta he led efforts to nativize Spark workloads with Velox achieving 2x performance and 25% cost savings, drove a multi-year trusted gateway migration, and spearheaded security and operational excellence initiatives that onboarded high-risk Novi pipelines. Previously he spent over a decade at Adobe advancing platform and product engineering across roles from Member Technical Staff to Senior Computer Scientist. He excels at resolving deep technical debt and dependency nightmares—once cutting build times from 50 minutes to 30 seconds for a team of 30+—and balances performance, security, and developer productivity. Known for pragmatic leadership, he combines systems-level expertise with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurSt. Mark's
Github Skills (11)
big-data10
sql-query10
hive10
spark10
hadoop10
presto10
sql10
java10
database10
query-engine9
trino9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
ankurpathela/presto
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/experiencemanager-java-designimporter
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
SDK for Adobe Experience Manager (Adobe CQ) to extend the Design Importer. It shows how to implement a TagHandler to map HTML elements to components during import.
Contributions:3 commits in 28 days
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