Yash Mayya
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYash Mayya is a software engineer based in Mountain View with nine years of experience focused on distributed systems and real-time data infrastructure. He currently builds real-time analytics at StarTree and is a committer on both Apache Pinot and Apache Kafka, contributing stability, performance optimizations, and safer resource management to widely used open-source datastores. Before StarTree he improved the Kafka Connect ecosystem at Confluent, working on task reconfiguration, offset handling, and runtime robustness. Known for pragmatic backend engineering, he combines production-grade code changes with an open-source-first mindset—often addressing thread-safety and efficiency issues that yield outsized reliability gains in large-scale deployments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
apache-pinot10
kafka-connect10
apache-kafka10
distributed-systems10
performance-optimization10
java10
apidoc9
rest-api9
api9
data-storage9
testing8
mockito7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/pinot
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Apache Pinot - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:443 reviews, 240 PRs, 110 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily focused on improving the codebase of the Apache Pinot datastore by optimizing code, improving efficiency and addressing bugs. Their contributions include using try-with-resources for file stream management, leveraging efficient URLEncoder and URLDecoder variants, supporting creation of raw derived columns during segment reload, and optimizing the extra array allocation and conversion of raw derived columns. They also addressed inconsistencies and thread safety in the codebase, improving overall stability and maintainability.
realtimedata-streamolapapachedatastore
apache/kafka
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:308 reviews, 14 commits, 82 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the Apache Kafka project by modifying code related to the Kafka Connect framework. Their commits focused on refining and improving code related to distributed configurations, state management, and error handling within the Kafka Connect runtime. The contributions indicate work on core components, including task reconfiguration logic, offset management, and REST API functionalities, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the robustness and proper operation of Kafka Connect.
apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka
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