Sandeep Tamhankar
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSandeep Tamhankar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently building software at Apple from Sunnyvale. He brings deep systems and backend expertise from long-tenured roles at Electric Cloud and Datastax, where he contributed to open-source Cassandra drivers in C/C++, adding geospatial WKT parsing and improving PHP driver support for decimals and durations. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he has led engineering efforts for CI/CD and DevOps products and shifted between individual contributor and management roles, giving him both hands-on implementation skills and team leadership perspective. A Cornell BS and Stanford MS in Computer Science underpin his work, and his open-source contributions to DataStax projects reveal a practical focus on production-quality data handling that many engineers overlook.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Stanford University
Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
cassandra10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
geo10
php10
spatial10
cprogramming-language10
cassandra-database10
apidoc9
api9
decimal9
unit-testing8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
datastax/cpp-driver
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
DataStax C/C++ Driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 18 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily contributed to the C/C++ driver for Apache Cassandra by implementing and refining features related to WKT parsing for geospatial data types, particularly points, line strings, and polygons. Their work included adding C functions to expose WKT parsing iterators and extracting coordinates, enhancing the driver's ability to handle spatial data. Additionally, the user addressed specific issues by fixing validation checks and improving function descriptions within the code.
nosqlcassandraapachedatabasedatastax
datastax/php-driver
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
[MAINTENANCE ONLY] DataStax PHP Driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily focused on bug fixes and feature implementations related to the DataStax PHP Driver for Apache Cassandra. They addressed issues in decimal string representations and parsing, and added support for a Duration data type. Their work involved modifications to C files for core functionality and PHPUnit tests for verifying the changes.
driverphp-drivercassandracqlphp
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