Lokesh Khurana
Apache Phoenix Committer at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLokesh Khurana is a backend-focused software engineer and Apache Phoenix committer with eight years of experience building robust database and distributed systems. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Salesforce and currently serves as a Lead Member of Technical Staff while contributing to Apache Phoenix core for improved sequence handling, tenant connections, and concurrency fixes. His work blends production-grade bug fixes, feature implementations, and new tests to ensure data integrity in a widely used open-source SQL-on-HBase project. A BTech computer scientist from MNIT Jaipur, he pairs deep systems knowledge with practical delivery, and—despite describing himself as a “bingewatcher”—brings disciplined, repeatable engineering rigor to high-stakes backend challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Malaviya National Insitute of Technology Jaipur12th, Non medical, 95.6%, 12th, Non medical, 95.6% at DAV Public School Mahendragarh
Github Skills (11)
javas10
hbase10
databases10
phoenix-liveview10
sql10
phoenix-framework10
apache-phoenix10
java10
database10
database-administration9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/phoenix
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Apache Phoenix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 14 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Lokesh's contributions focused on enhancing the Apache Phoenix database, specifically addressing issues related to tenant connections, global sequences, and concurrent table mutations. They implemented new features and corrected bugs in core components. These changes included modifications to improve sequence handling, fix potential concurrent modification exceptions, and optimize connection management. The user also introduced new tests to validate the implemented changes and ensure data integrity.
sqlapache-phoenixelixirapachebig-data
lokiore/hbase
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Mirror of Apache HBase
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 20 branches in 10 months
apache-hbaseconnectorapachenetwork-serverjava
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