Anup Ghatage
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnup Ghatage is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with 12 years of experience building scalable, distributed storage and database systems. He blends research-grade database expertise from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on production work—contributing as an Apache BookKeeper committer and improving core reliability, security, and logging in that project. His career spans low-level kernel and in-memory database development (Sybase, CMU Peloton, SAP HANA) to cloud-scale infrastructure and security at Salesforce, including inventions and published work that reached large audiences. Based in San Francisco, he repeatedly wins internal hackathons and speaks at major open-source conferences, signaling both deep technical craft and community leadership. Notably, he has practical experience adding certificate-based authorization and hardening bookie startup semantics, showing a focus on operational robustness that often goes unseen.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Marathi, Hindi, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
c-language10
databases10
distributed-systems10
zookeeper10
java10
apache-bookkeeper10
security10
javas10
dbm10
cprogramming-language10
dbms10
database10
apache9
tls129
tls139
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bookkeeper
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Apache BookKeeper - a scalable, fault tolerant and low latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 15 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Anup contributed to the Apache BookKeeper project by addressing several issues related to core functionality and stability. They improved cookie generation consistency, ensuring proper encoding of ledger directory paths. Furthermore, the user implemented critical changes to prevent bookies from starting without a valid cookie in the metadata store, enhancing the overall robustness of the system. The user also added authorization based on certificates by allowing whitelisted services to access the bookkeeper. Lastly, they converted several `System.out.println` statements to `LOG` statements for better logging and auditing.
apache-bookkeeperfault-tolerantlow-latencybookkeeperbig-data
cmu-db/peloton
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Anup implemented a message framework using nanomsg within the Peloton database system. They created and integrated nanomsg functionality including socket creation, binding, sending, receiving, and closing. Furthermore, the user contributed to B-tree index by merging master branch and adding new features. This involved modifying and testing index functionalities within the database system.
database-managementdatabasedbms
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