Rebecca Schlussel
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Schlussel is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and optimizing distributed query engines and data processing tools, currently contributing at Facebook from the New York City area. She has deep back-end expertise from her work on Presto at Teradata and Hadapt, including notable contributions to the Hive connector and ORC/DWRF reader-writer support that improved encrypted data handling and aggregation correctness. Comfortable in large-scale, performance-sensitive systems, she has also worked on tooling like presto-admin, a TPC-DS generator, and RE2J optimizations. A Yale Computer Science graduate, Rebecca blends production-grade engineering with open-source stewardship, often tackling subtle serialization and encryption edge cases that yield measurable efficiency and correctness gains.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (28)
encrypt10
decryption10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
crypt10
javas10
deserialization10
hive10
orc10
decrypt10
encryption10
analytics9
apache-hive9
sql-database9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1647 reviews, 243 commits, 615 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rebecca primarily contributed to back-end development within the Presto project, focusing on the Hive connector. They made improvements to the ORC reader and writer, including support for DWRF encryption, which involved handling encrypted metadata and data streams, enhancing the performance of text files, and modifying the serialization logic for improved efficiency. Furthermore, the user updated the handling of various aggregation operations for improved correctness.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
prestodb/airbase
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Base POM for Airlift
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pom
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