Rahul Challapalli
Principal Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRahul Challapalli is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with 13 years building large-scale distributed systems across cloud, storage, and analytics domains. He has held senior engineering and principal roles at Microsoft, Veritas, and most recently Roblox, and designed a columnar storage backend and single-node SQL engine that brought analytics capability to an object store. An active Apache committer (Drill and Blur) since 2013, he blends open-source stewardship with production-grade architecture and implementation. Rahul’s strengths include designing storage-query integrations and shipping pragmatic solutions that cut storage footprint while enabling new analytical use cases. He pairs deep systems expertise with a master’s in computer software engineering and a track record of moving complex, research-grade projects into production. Colleagues describe him as a deliberate problem-solver who prefers building durable infrastructure over chasing hype.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Acharya Nagarjuna UniversityMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (48)
json10
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java10
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sql10
mapr10
parquet10
hadoop9
apache9
apache-drill9
testing9
jdbc9
big-data9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rchallapalli/drill
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 21 branches, 2 comments in 2 years
drilljavaapache-drillapache
rchallapalli/drill-test-framework-1
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches, 2 comments in 3 days
drillapache-drilltestingtest-frameworkapache
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