Harish Jayaprakash
Senior R&D Solution Architect At Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHarish Jayaprakash is a Senior R&D Solution Architect at Microsoft with 9 years of experience designing and optimizing data platforms and backend systems. He brings deep technical expertise in large-scale analytics and storage layers, demonstrated by contributions to prominent open-source projects like Apache Hive, Tez, and Hortonworks Cloudbreak where he improved performance, security integrations (Kerberos, Knox), and AWS Secrets Manager support. Based in Sammamish, WA, Harish blends hands-on backend engineering with solution architecture—configuring RDS, refining metastore behaviors, and adding protobuf-based logging to production data pipelines. He has progressed through technical consultant and R&D roles at Microsoft after earlier enterprise development work, giving him a practical edge in translating complex research ideas into reliable cloud services. An engineer who still commits code to major Apache projects, he pairs product-minded architecture with an eye for low-level performance and operational robustness.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sri Sairam Engineering College
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (23)
back-end-development10
big-data10
data-analytics10
hadoop10
apache10
java10
javas10
hive10
tez10
postgresql9
cloud-computing9
databases9
sql9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/tez
Mar 2017 - May 2021
Apache Tez
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harish primarily contributed to the Apache Tez project, focusing on improving its core functionality. Their commits involved modifying Java code related to classpaths, tests, and the TezSharedExecutor. The user also addressed issues related to merging and memory allocation within the Tez runtime library, demonstrating expertise in optimizing the performance of data processing tasks. Furthermore, the user added protobuf-based history event logging.
apachebig-datatezhadoopjava
apache/hive
Dec 2017 - Jan 2022
Apache Hive
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harish's commits primarily involve modifications to the Apache Hive codebase, specifically focusing on enhancing the JDBC storage handler and file handling mechanisms. Their work includes enabling the retrieval of passwords from AWS Secrets Manager, implementing fixes for file name parsing, and improving concatenate file handling. These changes suggest contributions to the storage and data access layers of Hive. They also worked on implementing protobuf logging hive hook.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
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