Gautam Worah
Software (Production) Engineer at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGautam Worah is a production-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale web services, APIs, and search systems, currently working on Ads backend and infrastructure at Meta. His background spans high-scale roles at Amazon and AWS as well as startup product development, giving him a pragmatic balance of systems engineering and rapid prototyping. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Apache Lucene—optimizing faceting with BinaryDocValues—and to BeeWare’s voc transpiler, where he implemented and tested core string operations. Based in Mountain View, he holds a master's in computer science from NC State and has taught algorithms, reflecting strong foundations in algorithmic thinking. Outside work he pursues design, photography, video making and running, bringing a creative, user-focused lens to technical problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai
English, French, Gujarati, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
lucene10
unit-testing10
strings10
text-manipulation10
information-retrieval10
java10
searching10
javas10
backend10
transcode9
transpiler9
data-structures8
python8
data-structure8
algorithms8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
beeware/voc
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
A transpiler that converts Python code into Java bytecode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributed to the implementation of string manipulation functions (rstrip, lstrip, strip, and replace) within the Java codebase for the `voc` project. They added unit tests to verify the functionality of the new string methods, ensuring the correctness of the transpiled code. The user also addressed and fixed style check errors, improving the code quality. This involved modifying core Java files and creating or modifying test files.
python-codepythonjava-bytecodebytecodecompiler
gautamworah96/lucene
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Contributions:73 pushes, 33 branches in 3 years 7 months
solrapachesearch-engineluceneelasticsearch
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