Nikhil Gupta
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Gupta is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems at large tech firms including Microsoft and Adobe. He has worked across product and infrastructure teams—from Visual Studio/internal IT roles to Adobe Captivate and Microsoft’s current engineering org—delivering reliable services and sync features. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed subtle Hive issues around query execution, authorization, metrics, and historical date handling, showing attention to correctness in widely used big-data tooling. Based in Bengaluru and grounded in a B.Tech. in Computer Engineering from MNIT, he combines enterprise-scale delivery experience with hands-on bug fixes that improve multitenant systems and developer-facing components.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
task-management10
javas10
workflow-management10
resource-management10
sql10
metastore10
apache-hive10
java10
big-data9
query-optimization9
database9
databases9
hadoop8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil contributed to the Apache Hive project by addressing multiple issues related to query execution, authorization, and metrics. They fixed a bug in the workload manager related to kill trigger actions and allocation updates, specifically addressing the issue where metrics were not updated after a kill trigger. The user also resolved a bug in the `date_format` UDF for dates prior to 1900. Additionally, they improved the metastore's handling of direct SQL queries with IN/NOT IN clauses.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
guptanikhil007/hive
Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
Apache Hive
Contributions:42 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
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