Shakyan Kushwaha
Contributor at Presto Foundation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolShakyan Kushwaha is a C++ software developer focused on high-performance data processing, currently contributing to the Presto Foundation and formerly part of IBM’s watsonx.data team. With about four years of experience and a BTech in Computer Science from IIITDM Jabalpur, he specializes in Prestissimo (Presto C++) and Velox, working on everything from feature development to fixing CVEs. Passionate about open source, he bridges enterprise product work and community-driven projects to improve analytics ecosystems. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with practical impact across large-scale query engines, and maintains an active public presence on GitHub and social platforms.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.6, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.6 at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, JabalpurIntermediate, PCM + CS, Intermediate, PCM + CS at Rasphil AcademyHigh School, High School at Army Public School, LBS Marg, Lucknow
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Github Skills (66)
github10
python10
hadoop10
data-management10
cpp10
trino10
sql-query10
javascript10
digitalocean10
big-data10
gift10
sql10
presto10
database10
spark10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
anandamideShakyan/presto
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:104 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
anandamideShakyan/velox
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
A composable and fully extensible C++ execution engine library for data management systems.
Contributions:88 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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