Arpit Saxena
Senior Software Engineer at Yugabyte
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolArpit Saxena is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building resilient backend systems and storage-focused projects. A B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi, he has moved through systems and platform roles at Quadeye, NimbleEdge and now Yugabyte, blending low-level systems work with production engineering. Arpit contributes to tursodatabase/limbo, improving I/O robustness and performance for a modern SQLite-like OLTP engine—evidence of his knack for storage internals and fault-tolerant design. He enjoys building projects for fun on GitHub and is comfortable refactoring for performance (e.g., data-structure changes) and handling async I/O complexities like io_uring. Colleagues know him as a curious engineer who seeks practical fixes that prevent real-world hangs and improve operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Class 11- 12, Class 11- 12 at Remal Public SchoolGrades 6 - 10, Grades 6 - 10 at Manav Sthali School - India
Hindi, English
Github Skills (7)
io-uring10
databases10
rust10
embedded-database10
database10
sql8
webassembly5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tursodatabase/turso
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Arpit primarily focused on improving the performance and robustness of the database's I/O operations. They implemented features to handle I/O faults within the simulator, specifically targeting the `RowResult::IO` case, to increase the resilience of the SQLite evolution. Additionally, they added logic to manage the `io_uring` operations, including a `pending_ops` count, to prevent indefinite hangs and optimize the `run_once` function. They also refactored the `sorter` to use a `Vec` instead of `BTreeMap` for records.
databasedatabasesllvmpostgresqlrust
arpit-saxena/schedule-maker
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Generate ics file given a set of courses and slots
Contributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
icsslots
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