Dhruve Ashar
Graduate Assistant
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruve Ashar is a software engineer and graduate student in Computer Science at UIUC with 11 years of industry experience focused on distributed systems and cloud computing. At NCSA and through internships at Cisco and Morgan Stanley, he has worked on production-scale infrastructure and backend engineering, bridging research-grade projects and enterprise systems. He contributed to Apache Spark core improvements—memory management, ACL handling, and reliable RDD checkpointing—demonstrating practical impact on a widely used big-data engine. Academically strong (UIUC MS, University of Mumbai BS, ~3.7+ GPA), he combines rigorous coursework with hands-on systems work. Dhruve is seeking full-time software developer roles in Big Data or Cloud infrastructure and brings a knack for stabilizing complex client-side behaviors that aren’t obvious from logs alone.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.8 / 4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.8 / 4.0 at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (9)
javas10
configuration-management10
big-data10
spark10
java10
scala9
debug8
debugging8
build-system7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/spark
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 32 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dhruve primarily contributed to improving the Spark client's memory management, allowing for the specification of initial heap size via extraJavaOptions. This included modifying SparkSubmitCommandBuilder and SparkClassCommandBuilder to prevent the client from specifying -Xmx directly, enhancing stability. The user also addressed issues related to group access control lists (ACLs) for managing permissions and implemented fixes for reliable RDD checkpointing, ensuring correct partition handling.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
dhruve/spark
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Mirror of Apache Spark
Contributions:90 pushes, 51 branches, 6 tags in 3 years 6 months
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
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