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Akshay Rai

Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States11 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Big Data Infrastructure and Distributed Systems.
  • Led multiple high-impact projects at LinkedIn.
  • Strong background in anomaly detection and operational intelligence.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data Infrastructure expert with a focus on distributed systems and operational intelligence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsBig Data Infrastructure

Other Skills

Apache TrinoSQLData AnalysisKubernetesMonitoringData PipelinesApache PinotAnomaly DetectionRoot Cause AnalysisHadoopSparkOperational IntelligenceMapReduceAzkabanMonitoring Tools

About

Working on Big Data Infrastructure

Experience

11 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
11 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Linkedin

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Leading the Apache Trino project at LinkedIn to support SQL based adhoc and interactive data analysis on peta byte scale. Operationalized Trino gateway at LinkedIn to help scale from single to 10s of Trino clusters, performed couple of major Trino upgrades, built the CI infrastructure, integrated Trino with Opal Merge-On-Read tables, drove the strategy for moving Trino to K8s, built monitoring data pipelines and dashboards, and currently working on Trino caching to improve reliability and latencies.
Apache TrinoSQLData AnalysisKubernetesMonitoringData Pipelines+2

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Tech lead for the ThirdEye project under Apache Pinot. ThirdEye is LinkedIn's business wide anomaly detection and root cause analysis platform.
Apache PinotAnomaly DetectionRoot Cause AnalysisDistributed SystemsBig Data Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2017Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leading grid productivity and operations at LinkedIn Bangalore.
  • Serving as the Engineering Lead for the Dr. Elephant project.
  • Constructed an Operational Intelligence platform tailored for Hadoop and Spark.
HadoopSparkOperational IntelligenceBig Data Infrastructure

Software Engineer

Jul 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Proudly served as a founding member of the data team at LinkedIn Bangalore, with a focus on Hadoop development, and helped mentor and grow a big team. Notable contributions include building a popular tool called Dr. Elephant for monitoring and tuning MapReduce type jobs, open sourcing it and advocating it in the industry. Also contributed on a suite of automated tools to gate keep production hadoop environment, DSL tools to write azkaban workflows, auto-tuning of Hadoop jobs and troubleshooting production issues in the Grid ecosystem.
HadoopMapReduceAzkabanBig Data Infrastructure

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Summer Intern

May 2013Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Built an All-Terrain-Vehicle with GPS, Live Video Streaming and Data Acquisition System remotely controlled using an Android App.
Android DevelopmentGPSData Acquisition

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master's degree — Computing Systems

Jan 2020Jan 2022

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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