Satish Saley
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSatish Saley is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and search platforms, currently driving search and retrieval infrastructure at LinkedIn after leading core search initiatives at DoorDash. He has deep expertise in big data and stream processing—Hadoop, Oozie (Apache Oozie PMC and committer), Flink, Kafka—and has contributed backend fixes and enhancements to the widely used Apache Oozie project. At DoorDash he architected embedding-based retrieval, KNN vector similarity and join capabilities, and redesigned ingestion pipelines to cut full catalog indexing from weeks to hours while stabilizing services for 5X traffic spikes. Earlier roles include optimizing Apache Pig joins at Yahoo and developing Teradata connectors that improved inter-system transfer rates, showing a blend of open-source impact and enterprise integration experience. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs hands-on Java and systems engineering with mentoring and cross-functional leadership, and often bridges research-grade techniques (embedding retrieval) into production at massive scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, NandedMaster's degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Master's degree Computer and Information Sciences General at University at Buffalo
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (8)
javas10
hive10
oozie10
hadoop10
java10
apache-pig10
big-data9
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/oozie
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Mirror of Apache Oozie
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 1 comment in 1 year
Contributions summary:Satish primarily contributed to the Oozie project's back-end functionality by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements related to various action types, particularly Pig and Hive. Their work involved modifying Java code within the sharelib modules to improve logging, error handling, and configuration management. The user also made improvements to coordinator EL functions and dependency checks, demonstrating a focus on job management and workflow optimization within the Oozie ecosystem. The commits showcase a good understanding of Hadoop and related technologies.
javascriptapachebig-datajavaoozie
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