Nihal Jain
Apache Phoenix Committer at The Apache Software Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolNihal Jain is a Bangalore-based software engineer with 9 years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems for Big Data, real-time OLAP, and NoSQL platforms, currently working as a Senior Staff Data Engineer at Visa. An Apache HBase committer and member of the PMC as well as an Apache Phoenix committer and contributor to Apache Pinot and Hadoop, he brings deep operational knowledge of core database internals and production-grade metrics and UI improvements. Proficient in Java, Scala, and Python, Nihal has repeatedly solved subtle backend issues—such as refining HBase client option handling and RPC metrics—that improve reliability at scale. He holds an M.Tech. from IIT Guwahati and has a long track record of open-source stewardship alongside enterprise experience at Informatica and Huawei. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, low-level fixes that prevent antipatterns in large distributed deployments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Assam Engineering CollegeVivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Dibrugarh
English, French, Hindi, Assamese
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
hbase10
databases10
java10
database10
rpc9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
stream-reader6
remote-access6
base646
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hbase
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
Apache HBase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:555 reviews, 139 commits, 312 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nihal contributed to Apache HBase by modifying core components. Their work included addressing an issue where HBase overrides client-set `HBASE_OPTS`, enhancing the Master UI by validating fields for the table merge button, and adding an HBase antipattern check related to commons-logging usage. Further contributions involved providing metrics for various RPC handlers and refactoring the shell by fixing an issue related to append and incr operations when qualifiers are not specified.
hbasedatabasejava
NihalJain/phoenix
Oct 2023 - Aug 2025
Mirror of Apache Phoenix
Contributions:41 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 9 months
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