Chinmay Soman
VP Product at StarTree
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChinmay Soman is a product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-intensive systems from founding-engineer to VP Product at StarTree in Palo Alto. He blends deep back-end engineering chops—evidenced by contributions to Apache Pinot around aggregation, null handling, and segment indexing—with product strategy and go-to-market leadership. Prior roles at Uber and LinkedIn reflect a steady progression from hands-on systems engineering to leading teams and shaping product direction for large-scale, real-time platforms. Chinmay holds a master's in computer science from Stanford and began his career with development roles at IBM and internships at Apple, giving him both academic rigor and practical industry experience. Notably, he pairs product vision with low-level data plumbing expertise, able to drive decisions informed by code-level tradeoffs in OLAP and streaming contexts. Based in Palo Alto, he thrives at the intersection of open-source engineering, product leadership, and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
javas10
apache-pinot10
java10
testing10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 reviews, 21 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chinmay's commits primarily focused on enhancing the aggregation logic for numerical metrics (Float and Double) and integrating presence vectors within the mutable segment. This involved modifying core indexing and aggregation code, as evidenced by the changes in `MutableSegmentImpl` and related test files. The user also contributed to adding support for null predicate functionality. Additionally, the commits include the creation of null value vectors within segments for improved query filtering capabilities, reflecting their focus on data handling and query optimization.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
icefury71/incubator-pinot
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Apache Pinot (Incubating) - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:84 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 10 months
incubatingrealtimeolapapachedatastore
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