Maria Basmanova
Software Engineer at Facebook
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Basmanova is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in analytical query processing and scalable back-end systems, currently contributing to core projects at Facebook in Boston. She has a strong track record delivering reliable, high-performance features for distributed SQL engines—her open-source work includes performance and geospatial enhancements to Presto/Trino and contributions to Apache Sedona and Esri’s geometry API. Maria is a co-author or contributor to high-profile publications and projects such as Velox (VLDB 2022) and large-scale Presto deployments, reflecting expertise that bridges research and production. Her background in mathematics from Lomonosov MSU underpins a detail-oriented, analytical approach to designing execution engines and spatial algorithms. Known for optimizing critical functions like ST_Contains and introducing spatial partitioning structures, she brings both deep systems thinking and practical engineering to large-scale analytics.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian
Github Skills (21)
algorithm10
code-optimization10
algorithms10
geospatial10
spatial-analysis10
data-structure10
java10
spatial-data10
javas10
geo10
sql10
optimisation10
data-structures10
spatial10
numerical-optimization10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Sep 2017 - Nov 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1232 reviews, 470 commits, 941 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily contributed to the geospatial functionality of the Presto query engine, implementing and optimizing various functions related to handling spatial data. Their work focused on adding new features, such as functions for finding distances, calculating the centroid of a geometry, and determining the validity of geometries. The user also improved the performance of existing functions, particularly ST_Contains and ST_Envelope, by optimizing the underlying data access methods, along with implementing new subfield pruning logic.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
Esri/geometry-api-java
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
The Esri Geometry API for Java enables developers to write custom applications for analysis of spatial data. This API is used in the Esri GIS Tools for Hadoop and other 3rd-party data processing solutions.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 93 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Maria contributed to the Esri Geometry API for Java by implementing new functionalities and fixing existing issues. The commits reveal the addition of a method to estimate memory size, the implementation of the centroid operation for various geometric types, and fixes for intersection and difference methods. The user also added tests to validate the functionality of new methods and addressed issues related to handling of empty geometries.
spatial3rd-partygisdata-managementhadoop
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