Soham J
Senior Software Engineer at Everlaw
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSoham J is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building production-grade systems that sit at the intersection of AI, data, and infrastructure. He moves quickly from ambiguous, high-leverage problems to pragmatic implementations, turning complex distributed and data-heavy logic into elegant, usable products. His background spans full-stack and backend work across Amazon (building an ML-powered AWS Entity Resolution service), Expedia, Cisco, and startups, demonstrating a consistent pattern of shipping scalable services and integrating ML into real products. Soham is an active contributor to Apache Drill, where he improved query-engine robustness and performance—work that reflects deep familiarity with memory management and distributed query semantics. Equally comfortable in low-level system debugging and product-facing web platforms, he combines systems thinking with a product-first mindset. He’s drawn to projects that don’t yet exist and enjoys building infrastructure that makes intelligence a repeatable product.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (10)
drilldown10
javas10
big-data10
sql10
performance-optimization10
java10
apache-drill10
parquet9
data-engineering8
hadoop8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/drill
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 187 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Soham primarily focused on improving the performance and addressing issues related to the Apache Drill query engine. Their contributions involved modifying the `LateralJoinBatch` implementation, specifically addressing memory management and vector allocation within the context of join operations. The commits also included resolving an IllegalStateException in `UnnestRecordBatch` and fixing a race condition in `RuntimeFilterSink`. Additionally, the user implemented support for the `EMIT` outcome in `ExternalSortBatch` and made enhancements related to the display of the query state in the query result page.
jdbcdatastreambig-datadatabasehadoop
sohami/OpenSearch
Jul 2021 - May 2024
Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 PRs, 172 pushes in 2 years 10 months
restfulsearch-engineopensearchmeilisearchelasticsearch
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