Summary
Shubham Chaurasia is an experienced software engineer with 11 years focused on high-performance SQL engines and big data systems, currently driving query execution and optimization for Athena, EMR Trino, and Presto at AWS. He previously helped make Trino and Presto faster on EMR and contributed to Apache Hive and Spark during his tenure at Cloudera, including tracked Hive contributions. Based in Virginia, he brings deep systems expertise across the full data stack—from connector and execution-layer improvements to engine-level performance tuning. Shubham’s career shows a steady progression from early engineering roles to staff-level responsibilities, reflecting both hands-on coding and architectural impact. He combines open-source collaboration experience with production-scale performance work, often tackling subtle optimization challenges that yield large cost and latency wins.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science