Ashutosh Bapat
Summary
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SeniorAshutosh Bapat is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of deep expertise in core database server development, spanning storage engines, buffer management, query processing and distributed database systems. He has navigated engineering cultures from enterprise giants like Sybase and Microsoft to startups such as EnterpriseDB, and has led both development and customer-facing roles including conference presentations and technical marketing. A long-standing contributor to PostgreSQL and related projects (Postgres-XC, BDR), he drove distributed query planning and replication features and helped productionize replication and metastore solutions at Hortonworks. His open-source work includes security enhancements to Apache HiveServer2—adding trusted-domain authentication with unit tests and reverse DNS verification—which highlights a knack for pragmatic, security-conscious backend engineering. Trained at IIT Bombay (MTech), he uniquely blends academic rigor with hands-on systems design and cross-team leadership.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
javas10
hive10
authentication10
big-data10
user-authentication10
apache10
sql10
java10
thrift9
database9
databases9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 41 PRs, 304 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ashutosh focused on enhancing HiveServer2's security and authentication mechanisms. They implemented and tested a feature that allows Hive connections from the same domain without authentication. The contributions also involved modifying the existing authentication process to support trusted domains, using reverse DNS lookups for verification. In addition, the user addressed comments, and provided unit tests for the trusted domain authentication feature.
apache-hivehivejavadatabasesql
ashutosh-bapat/experiments
Dec 2018 - Jul 2025
Experimental code deposit, usually a maven project
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
javamavendepositmaven-project
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