Niketh Sabbineni
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiketh Sabbineni is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building high-scale distributed systems and products. A co-founder of a stealth AI startup and former VP of Engineering at Zilingo, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on backend expertise from roles at Yahoo, Amazon, and Sumo Logic. He is an active Apache Druid committer, contributing performance and resource-management improvements to a widely used real-time analytics database that powers PB-scale workloads. An IIT Guwahati alumnus who built and exited Bookpad to Yahoo, Niketh pairs product-driven engineering with a penchant for endurance sports—marathons, squash, biking—that reflect his persistence and team-focused leadership.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Github Skills (11)
javas10
databases10
apache-druid10
relational-databases10
back-end-development10
sql-database10
java10
database10
performance-optimization9
zookeeper8
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/druid
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 126 PRs, 125 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Niketh's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Druid database's core functionality and performance. They implemented features such as blacklisting workers for improved task management, improved the cost balancer strategy, and optimized segment loading. They also addressed bugs related to SegmentLoaderLocalCacheManager and incorporated a UUID generation for query IDs. Furthermore, they enhanced the system by uncompressing streams and logging segment publishing information.
apache-druiddatabasedruid
niketh/druid
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
Contributions:148 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 1 month
idealdata-storedatabasecolumn-orienteddistributed
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