Wamsi Viswanath
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWamsi Viswanath is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building large-scale backend and platform systems, currently driving production initiatives at Uber. He combines deep database engineering skills with practical platform thinking, evidenced by contributions to HeavyDB where he added dashboard sharing, permissions, and thrift service extensions. Comfortable navigating core system code and product-facing features, he turns complex access-control and data-service requirements into robust implementations. With an MS from Syracuse and a BTech from Chhattisgarh SVTU, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on open-source and enterprise impact.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Syracuse UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
sql10
database-design10
apidoc9
api9
database-administration9
dashboard8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
heavyai/heavydb
Apr 2018 - May 2020
HeavyDB (formerly OmniSciDB)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:182 commits, 7 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Wamsi's commits primarily focused on enhancing the database functionality of the HeavyDB project. They implemented the `\dash` command to display accessible dashboards and introduced sharing capabilities, including handling privileges and user roles. The changes extended the thrift service to manage dashboard sharing, handling permissions, and user groups, and involved the modification of core system and database code.
cudareal-timevisualizationgpuheavyai
heavyai/mapd-ml-demo
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Extract, PreProcess, and Analyze big data on GPUs
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
data-analysisdata-preprocessingfeature-extractiongpubig-data
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