Hrishikesh Gadre
Software Engineer at Meta
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHrishikesh Gadre is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, and mobile messaging platforms across companies like Meta, WhatsApp, Cloudera, and VMware. He specializes in core Java, concurrent programming, and database systems, and has contributed to prominent open-source projects including Apache Solr, Hadoop, and Sentry. At Meta he’s worked on stream processing and AI training observability tooling, and previously improved reliability and MySQL efficiency for Facebook’s large asynchronous queue platform. His background includes hands-on HDFS and Solr integration work at Cloudera and designing clustered management and RPC systems at VMware, reflecting deep systems-level engineering. A Rutgers MS graduate focused on distributed systems and a Stanford Advanced Software Systems certificate student, he pairs strong academic grounding with practical production experience. He often blends low-level performance tuning with developer-facing tooling—an engineer who bridges infrastructure internals and operational observability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, Master of Science, Computer Engineering at Rutgers UniversityBachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science and Engg., Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science and Engg. at Walchand College Of Engineering, SangliAdvanced Software Systems Graduate Certificate, Advanced Software Systems Graduate Certificate at Stanford University
Github Skills (27)
spark10
hadoop10
apache10
java10
backend10
apache-hadoop9
solr9
lucene9
big-data9
storage9
scalable8
information-retrieval8
kubernetes8
search-engine8
nosql7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hgadre/lucene-solr
Apr 2016 - Dec 2017
Mirror of Apache Lucene + Solr
Contributions:32 pushes, 28 branches, 6 comments in 1 year 7 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
hgadre/darn
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 11 months
apiyarnapi-applicationresource-managementapplication-management
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