Raunaq Morarka
Senior Staff Engineer at Starburst
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRaunaq Morarka is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with 7 years of experience building and optimizing distributed query engines and big-data infrastructure. He has progressed through engineering roles at Symantec, Akamai, Qubole, and Starburst, and today shapes Trino as a maintainer and contributor to its core query and Parquet optimization logic. Known for pragmatic backend engineering, he has implemented tests and fixes for Parquet row-group pruning and page-index filtering in the widely used Trino project. At Starburst he has moved rapidly through senior technical roles, driving performance and correctness in production query execution. Combining a strong academic foundation from IIT Kharagpur in Mathematics and Computing with hands-on systems work, he blends algorithmic thinking with production-grade engineering. He often operates at the intersection of testing, performance tuning, and plugin-level integrations—skills that quietly reduce query latency for large-scale analytics.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Mathematics and Computing, Master's Degree, Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
parquet10
query-engine10
javas10
query-builder10
java10
data-processing9
test-framework9
sql8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3437 reviews, 91 commits, 787 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Raunaq's commits primarily focused on the development and improvement of Trino's query engine, a distributed SQL query engine for big data. They added functionality to the testing framework and implemented a new test for Parquet row group pruning using page indexes. They also addressed a bug in Parquet page filtering by modifying code within the Trino-Hive plugin and lib-trino-parquet libraries. The commits demonstrate experience with testing and optimizing query execution.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
raunaqmorarka/presto
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:1797 pushes, 769 branches in 6 years 2 months
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
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