Parth Brahmbhatt
Senior Staff Engineer at Airbnb
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolParth Brahmbhatt is a Senior Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale data platforms for both streaming and batch workloads, currently driving data infrastructure at Airbnb. He was an early engineer on AWS Kinesis and later became a prolific open-source contributor and committer on projects like Apache Storm, Kafka, Iceberg and Presto/Trino, bringing deep operational and storage-plane expertise. At Netflix he expanded into batch systems (Druid, Presto, Iceberg) and continues to shape core features such as Iceberg's ReplaceFile and Kafka authorizer work visible on his GitHub. Known for solving platform-level challenges—replicated storage, control planes, high-throughput aggregation pipelines—he combines hands-on code contributions with product-scale design. Based in Fremont, CA, he blends cloud service experience with open-source leadership, making him adept at translating research-grade systems into production-ready platforms.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Sardar Patel University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
41reputation
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4questions
Github Skills (15)
javas10
hive10
kafka10
authorizations10
java10
authorization10
apache-iceberg10
scala10
testing9
data-structure9
zookeeper9
data-structures9
api-design8
netlogo6
hyperlink6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/kafka
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 21 PRs, 253 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Parth primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by implementing and fixing bugs in the authorizer component. Their work included adding a simple ACL authorizer implementation and test cases, along with fixing checkstyle failures. Further contributions involved increasing timeouts for test verification and adding integration tests for the authorizer at the API level. They also worked on the CLI implementation for the authorizer.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
apache/iceberg
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Parth's contributions focused on implementing and refining core features within the Apache Iceberg project. They developed the "ReplaceFile" action, extracting common functionalities and modifying existing file management logic. Furthermore, the user addressed Hive table implementation, creating Hive-specific table operations and utility classes. They also worked on adding metadata file compression and making fixes related to table metadata and transactions.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
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