Neerad Somanchi
Production Engineer at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeerad Somanchi is a Production Engineer based in Mountain View with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently at Meta. He combines a strong systems and protocol background from his work on Samsung’s Shannon modem baseband stack with a CS master’s from University at Buffalo and a B.Tech from IIT Guwahati. At Meta he focuses on keeping complex production services reliable and performant, and his open-source contributions to the Presto project show hands-on involvement in distributed SQL engine internals and connector/session tracing. He has shipped carrier-certified modem firmware in high-pressure international releases and now applies that same rigor to cloud-scale production engineering. Known for clear release documentation and pragmatic code changes, he blends operational discipline with developer-friendly improvements that help teams move faster.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.79, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, GPA: 3.79 at University at Buffalo
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
javas10
big-data10
hive10
presto10
java10
releasenotes10
user-data9
data-model9
data-set9
sql9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 35 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Neerad contributed significantly to release notes, documenting new features and bug fixes for Presto. They added release notes for multiple versions and updated the main release notes file to include links to the new releases. They also reverted a commit related to Hive updates, indicating involvement in the connector's codebase. Further, they added client tag information to ConnectorSession, which suggests they might be working on improving Presto's session management or tracing capabilities.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
neeradsomanchi/presto
Sep 2019 - Oct 2023
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:82 pushes, 27 branches in 4 years 2 months
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
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