Salim Achouche
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSalim Achouche is a veteran backend software architect with over two decades of experience building scalable, high-performance systems, currently serving as a Consulting Member Of Technical Staff in Oracle Cloud. He specializes in distributed systems, compute engines, database internals, and Big Data/cloud technologies, with a strong track record of solving low-level performance and resource-leak issues. Previously a Principal Software Engineer at MapR and Senior Software Architect at Informatica, he brings deep production experience across enterprise data platforms. An active open-source contributor, Salim has improved memory handling and query performance in the widely used Apache Drill project, tackling Parquet reader leaks and filter pushdown edge cases. Based in Chapel Hill, NC, he pairs hands-on engineering with architectural thinking to deliver resilient, large-scale data infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge database internals and cloud-native deployment realities.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in CS, Computer Science, Master's degree in CS, Computer Science at Wichita State University
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Github Skills (12)
parquet10
drilldown10
javas10
big-data10
memory-management10
performance-optimization10
sql10
java10
apache-drill10
hadoop9
jdbc7
spring-data-jdbc6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/drill
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 47 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Salim primarily contributed to the Apache Drill project by fixing memory leaks and improving performance within the Parquet reader and other components. Their work involved addressing issues related to file descriptor leaks, memory leaks in the Parquet reader, and filter pushdown problems when statistics are missing. They also improved SQL pattern matching performance and addressed query failures related to data type changes.
jdbcdatastreambig-datadatabasehadoop
sachouche/drill
Oct 2017 - May 2019
Mirror of Apache Drill
Contributions:64 pushes, 41 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
drilljavaapache-drillapache
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