Mukund Thakur
Apache Hadoop PMC Member at Cloudera
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMukund Thakur is a seasoned distributed systems engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cloudera and an Apache Hadoop PMC member based in Austin. He focuses on backend and test automation work, contributing notable stability and performance improvements to the widely used apache/hadoop project—especially around DistCp reliability and S3A file system performance and encryption testing. Mukund progressed from contributor to committer and PMC member, reflecting deep expertise in large-scale data movement, vectored IO, and list operation optimizations. He combines production-grade engineering at enterprise scale with hands-on open-source leadership, ensuring data integrity in complex append/truncate scenarios that often go unnoticed until they fail.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
English, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
javas10
hadoop10
data-integrity10
java10
testing10
performance-optimization9
back-end-development9
filesystem9
aws8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hadoop
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:430 reviews, 94 commits, 107 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mukund primarily contributed to enhancing the stability and functionality of the Hadoop-DistCp and S3A file system components within the Apache Hadoop repository. Their work involved resolving critical issues related to data integrity during DistCp jobs, particularly focusing on scenarios where data was appended to or truncated from files. The user implemented new features for performance improvements like vectored IO and enhanced the testing coverage by adding a new integration test suite to verify default encryption settings for S3A. In addition to this the user has also worked on the performance improvements of the system by fixing the issues related to list operations.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
mukund-thakur/hadoop
Sep 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:153 pushes, 60 branches in 5 years 2 months
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
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