Mainak Ghosh
Staff Software Engineer at Starburst
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolMainak Ghosh is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building distributed data systems, currently focusing on integrations between Kafka and Apache Iceberg at Starburst. His career spans impactful engineering roles at Twitter and research internships at Microsoft and IBM, blending production-grade systems work with research-driven problem solving. He holds advanced degrees from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD track at UIUC, reflecting deep academic grounding in computer science. Early work on Adobe InDesign and long-term roles at major platforms give him a strong foundation in both large-scale infrastructure and product-focused development. Known for navigating the intersection of streaming and analytical storage, he brings pragmatic solutions to complex data pipeline challenges. Based in Fremont, CA, he pairs rigorous technical depth with an ability to translate research insights into reliable, deployable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Information Technology, B.E., Information Technology at Jadavpur UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignM.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurNational Gems Higher Secondary School
Bengali, English, Hindi
Github Skills (42)
spark10
big-data10
kafka10
hadoop10
apache-druid10
apache10
analytics10
java10
scala10
hive10
sql10
apache-kafka10
high-performance10
database10
druid10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twitter-forks/hive
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Mirror of Apache Hive
Contributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
flinkapachebig-datadatabasehadoop
twitter-forks/druid
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Apache Druid - Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years
idealdata-storeapachebig-datadruid
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