Yash Sharma
Senior Engineering Manager, Gen AI Platform
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolYash Sharma is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Greater Sydney with 12 years of experience designing and leading large-scale Data, ML and Storage platforms. He has built and operated massively multi-tenant, multi-cloud storage and data platforms at Atlassian that host 50+ petabytes and power flagship products like Jira and Confluence, while driving migrations and compliance features such as data residency and BYOK. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and leadership, he has deep distributed-systems and backend experience from contributions to Apache Drill and Spark, where he improved SQL/math capabilities and real-time failure recovery. Previously he led recommendation, feature-store and streaming systems at Snapdeal that powered personalized experiences for millions of users. Yash combines product-facing delivery with platform foundations—creating self-serve data tooling, metrics frameworks and data quality systems that reduce organizational friction. An engineer-manager who still ships code, he’s known for turning complex platform challenges into scalable, operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha
English, Odia, Hindi, Bengali, Marwari
Github Skills (10)
math-functions10
javas10
drilldown10
big-data10
sql10
java10
apache-drill10
testing9
data-structures4
data-structure4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/drill
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the Apache Drill project by implementing and enhancing mathematical functions. Their work involved adding trigonometric functions, the `substr()` function, and other extended math functions like `cbrt`, `exp`, and logarithmic functions. They also addressed bug fixes in existing functions like `div` and `mod`, and updated related files to support these changes. The user's commits clearly indicate a focus on improving the SQL capabilities of the system.
jdbcdatastreambig-datadatabasehadoop
yssharma/spark
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:65 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 2 months
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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