Nemanja Boric
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNemanja Boric is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with a focus on distributed systems and database engines, currently driving backend work at Databricks. He has a compact but impactful career across AWS and dunnhumby, where he led work on distributed storage, in-memory KV stores and custom protocols, and maintained a language runtime. Nemanja contributes to Apache Spark Connect with backend stability and logging improvements and is the author of the hobby OS project Micoos, reflecting a taste for system-level programming. He represented Amazon at the C++ standards committee, signaling deep protocol and language-level expertise beyond everyday engineering. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends production-grade hardening with experimental low-level projects.
2 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Belgrade
Github Skills (9)
javas10
big-data10
apache-spark10
threadpoolexecutor10
back-end-development10
java10
grpc9
python9
scala8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
apache/spark
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nemanja primarily contributed to the Apache Spark Connect project, focusing on backend functionalities and improvements. Their work involved resolving issues related to gRPC exceptions, including modifying the error handling in PySpark and later reverting the change due to unintended consequences. The user also worked on preventing infinite loops within the BindParameters mechanism, improving stability. Additionally, they contributed to structured logging and updated the codebase to use ThreadPoolExecutor, demonstrating a focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the Spark Connect backend.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
nemanja-boric-databricks/spark
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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