Dhaval Patel is a Staff QA Engineer in San Jose with 13 years of experience bridging network engineering and software quality for leading networking vendors like CommScope, ARRIS, and Brocade. He brings deep protocol-level expertise—OSPF, BGP, PIM variants, IGMP, STP/RSTP, VRRP and VLANs—combined with hands-on network design, monitoring and troubleshooting. Transitioning from network engineering into SQA, he focuses on reliability of complex distributed systems and has contributed backend indexing and segment-creation logic to the well-known Apache Pinot project. Certified at CCNP/CCNA/CCENT levels and holding a graduate diploma in business administration, he pairs technical depth with operational pragmatism and a knack for turning low-level protocol behavior into robust test strategy.
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Certified Network Associate at CCNA
Graduate Diploma, Business Administration and Management, General, Graduate Diploma, Business Administration and Management, General at Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Civil Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney
Cisco Certified Network Professional, Cisco Certified Network Professional at CCNP
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:189 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dhaval implemented segment creation logic and data indexing within the Apache Pinot project. Their work involved the creation of segment dictionaries, forward indices, and inverted indices for various data types like integers, floats, longs, doubles, strings, and booleans. The user modified multiple Java files related to segment creation and indexing, indicating a focus on core data storage and retrieval mechanisms.
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