Ari Ekmekji
Software Engineer at Airbnb
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAri Ekmekji is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed data systems and scaling engineering teams, currently working on Airbnb’s next-generation distributed database. He was an early engineer and the first engineering manager at Rockset (acquired by OpenAI), where he owned real-time ingestion, indexing, and the control plane while balancing individual contribution and leadership. Ari’s background spans high-performance systems from RocksDB at Facebook to founding-engineer work at a YC startup building IoT and deep-learning pipelines, giving him a rare blend of low-level storage expertise and product-focused systems design. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on implementation of query engines and indexing with team-building across geographies, and he’s known for shipping pragmatic infrastructure that bridges research, ML pipelines, and production databases.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (106)
dashboard10
postgresql10
athena10
bigtable10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
cloud-native10
foundationdb10
storage-engine10
javascript10
oltp10
lsm-tree10
persistent-storage10
scale10
sql10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coolbnjmn/CS130-Events
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:90 commits, 50 pushes in 1 month
ari-e/tidb
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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