Bhuwan Chopra
Engineering Leader at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBhuwan Chopra is an engineering leader in Seattle with 15+ years building and scaling large-scale distributed data systems, currently leading teams at Apple after senior leadership at Lyft and foundational engineering roles at Facebook. He specializes in high-throughput, low-latency data infrastructure across the Hadoop and open-source ecosystem (Presto, Hive, Druid, Kafka, Airflow) and cloud services like Redshift and S3, and his research publications at VLDB/SIGMOD have 100+ citations. A hands-on manager, he has architected complex distributed systems from scratch and contributed to well-known projects such as Lyft’s presto-gateway, improving routing and backend management for query load balancing. Known for marrying academic rigor with product-driven delivery, he led major reliability and storage-efficiency efforts at Facebook’s Scuba and Cocoon platforms. An early ACM ICPC World Finals participant, he brings both competitive problem-solving pedigree and a track record of shipping mission-critical infrastructure in time-constrained environments.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Blue Bells Model School, GurgaonBE, IT, BE, IT at Institute of Technology and Management
Hindi, English
Github Skills (8)
javas10
load-balancing10
backend10
presto10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/presto-gateway
Dec 2018 - Feb 2020
A load balancer / proxy / gateway for prestodb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 15 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bhuwan focused on implementing features related to routing and backend management within the Presto gateway. Their contributions include modifications to the `GatewayBackendManager`, `RoutingManager`, and `HeaderBasedProxyHandler` classes to support scheduled queries and backend selection. The user also added functionalities for activating and deactivating backends, and enhanced the handling of authorization and scheduled query routing. The changes indicate a focus on improving the gateway's load balancing and request handling capabilities.
prestodbproxylyftproxy-balancergateway
bhuwanchopra/DS
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 months
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