Slim Bouguerra is a Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn with 10 years of experience building and operating exascale data platforms and distributed query engines. He specializes in low-latency OLAP and massive-scale data processing—designing systems that provide sub-second aggregations over petabytes and SQL reporting across exabytes of data lakes. A long-time open-source contributor and PMC for Apache Druid plus a core committer for Apache Hive, he bridges production engineering and community-driven database projects. His background includes research-driven fault tolerance and scheduling from INRIA/UIUC and national labs, which informs his focus on reliability and failure-aware architectures. Based in San Jose, he combines hands-on algorithm design for hundreds of billions of data points with team leadership that operationalizes real-time analytics at internet scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at École supérieure des sciences et techniques de Tunis
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Institut polytechnique de Grenoble
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Slim Bouguerra - Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn