Palash Chauhan
Apache Phoenix Commiter at Salesforce
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPalash Chauhan is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed systems and big data, currently building Salesforce Phoenix, a fully managed big-data storage service based on Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. A UC San Diego MS and IIT Kanpur alumnus, he focuses on scalable, highly available data platforms and has driven features like server- and client-side metadata caching, change streams, and schema management in production. As an Apache Phoenix committer he contributes core database improvements—optimizing metadata handling, DDL validation, and region split behavior—bringing upstream open-source expertise to enterprise services. Based in Seattle, he blends academic teaching experience with hands-on engineering at Adobe and Salesforce, and he self-describes with a light technical swagger: "The force is moderately okay with this one," hinting at a pragmatic, curious approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
databases10
phoenix-liveview10
sql10
phoenix-framework10
apache-phoenix10
java10
database10
hbase9
pdf6
azure6
dvi6
latex6
makefile6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/phoenix
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Apache Phoenix
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:233 reviews, 3 commits, 78 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Palash primarily contributed to the Apache Phoenix project, focusing on database-related functionalities. Their commits showcase improvements to client-side metadata caching and enhancements to system metadata handling. They also worked on resolving issues related to last DDL timestamp validation and data table region splits. These changes indicate involvement in optimizing and maintaining the core database functionalities.
sqlapache-phoenixelixirapachebig-data
palashc/Phoenix
May 2020 - Oct 2020
A fault tolerant distributed scheduler based on Sparrow
Contributions:89 commits, 16 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 months
golangfault-tolerantfaultschedulerdistributed-systems
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