Naveen Cherukuri
Senior Engineering Manager at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolNaveen Cherukuri is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Sunnyvale with 15+ years of engineering leadership and 11 years of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed data and real-time systems. He has led critical infrastructure teams at Meta and Uber, driving open-source projects like Presto and Velox and operating platforms that process trillions of messages per day for real-time analytics and ML. Naveen’s background spans cloud, streaming, and data-platform engineering—Kafka, Flink, Samza, Hadoop/HBase—and he’s repeatedly translated research-grade systems into production at internet scale. At Meta he focuses on database acceleration and query engines, while at Uber he built the streaming SQL and real-time pipelines that power surge pricing, ML, and dashboards. He combines strong academic credentials (IIT Guwahati, UIUC) with a track record of contributing to cross-company open-source collaborations and partnering with industry players like Intel and ByteDance. Known for turning complex distributed problems into resilient platforms, he brings both deep technical ownership and program-level leadership across data infrastructure and AI/ML workloads.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.63/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.63/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (11)
query-engine10
trino10
hive10
sql-query10
big-data10
spark10
hadoop10
presto10
sql10
java10
database10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Naveen007/presto
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
jdbchbasebigdatabig-datatrino
Naveen007/github-slideshow
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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