Swarnim Kulkarni
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSwarnim Kulkarni is a Principal Software Engineer at AWS with 11 years of experience architecting cloud-scale data platforms, particularly for healthcare. He built ingestion and indexing pipelines at Cerner using Hadoop, Lucene, and Solr, and helped enable semantic search across EMR data by developing crawlers and streaming services into the cloud. At AWS he continues to focus on large-scale distributed systems and has tangible open-source impact as a backend contributor to Apache Hive, fixing Avro deserialization corner cases and HBase handler behavior. Combining research experience in information retrieval with hands-on production engineering, he bridges academic rigor and practical delivery. Based in Kirkland, WA, he brings deep expertise in Java, Hadoop ecosystem components, and AWS to solve data-intensive problems for regulated domains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Kansas State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Institute of Engineering and Technology, DAVV, India
Github Skills (9)
javas10
avro10
big-data10
apache-hive10
java10
database9
databases9
hbase8
sql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hive
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Apache Hive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Swarnim primarily contributed to the `Apache Hive` repository by addressing issues related to the Avro deserializer, specifically focusing on handling evolved union fields and empty data scenarios. Their work involved modifying Avro-related code within the `serde` package, including changes to `AvroDeserializer`, `AvroLazyObjectInspector`, and test files to improve functionality and robustness. Additionally, the user resolved an issue related to HBase handler behavior in a query involving row keys. They also updated documentation for the `InstanceCache` to clarify the contract on the `SeedObject`.
flinksqlapachebig-dataspark
swarnim87/swarnim87.github.io
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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