Arka Ganguli
Engineering Manager at Notion
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArka Ganguli is an engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and scaling datastore and serving infrastructures at companies like Notion and Slack. He brings deep expertise in database systems and observability, evidenced by contributions to Vitess where he improved query-level metrics and streaming query correctness for a widely used MySQL clustering project. At Notion he transitioned from leading database scaling efforts as a senior engineer to managing the datastore team, hiring and shaping platform reliability. Known for pragmatic engineering and strong testing discipline, he consistently drives measurable improvements in monitoring and performance behind large-scale services.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering & Management (B.Eng.Mgt.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering & Management (B.Eng.Mgt.) Computer Software Engineering at McMaster UniversityOntario High School Diploma, Ontario High School Diploma at Rick Hansen Secondary School
Github Skills (12)
databases10
vitess10
go10
database-administration10
admin10
database10
mysql9
sha9
database-cluster8
kubernetes8
cnc8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Arka primarily focused on adding and updating metrics related to query processing within the Vitess system. They modified code to track query counts at the vtgate level, incorporating operation, plan type, keyspace, and table information. The user also addressed issues related to stream query counts and implemented unit tests to ensure the correctness of the streaming query metrics. Their work involved modifying core system components, contributing to improved monitoring and observability.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
arka-g/Edulytics
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
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