Purshotam Shah
Sr Principal Engineer at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPurshotam Shah is a senior principal engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of professional experience building low-latency, distributed platforms. At Yahoo! he works on systems spanning ZooKeeper, Storm, Flink, Oozie and Hive, bringing deep expertise in stream and workflow orchestration. A longtime Apache committer and PMC member for Oozie and Storm, he contributes both core backend logic and UI enhancements—his open-source work includes fixes and features for the widely used Apache Oozie project. Earlier leadership at Oracle and a Computer Science education from IIIT Allahabad round out a background that blends project ownership with hands-on coding. Known for pragmatic improvements across Java and JavaScript stacks, he focuses on making complex distributed workflows observable and resilient.
9 years of coding experience
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanComputer Science, Computer Science at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
Github Skills (7)
javas10
oozie10
java10
javascript9
big-data9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/oozie
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Mirror of Apache Oozie
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Purshotam contributed to the Apache Oozie project, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the Oozie web UI and core functionalities. They implemented features to display workflow action retry information in the UI. The commits also included improvements related to dependency checks for coordinator actions and fixes for log display issues. The changes touched Java code, JavaScript code, and core logic.
javascriptapachebig-datajavaoozie
purushah/zookeeper
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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