Computer science professional with main interests: Distributed computing and storage. Direct experience in distributed data analytics using Hadoop. Specialties: Java, Scala, C, C++, Python, Shell scripting (bash, unix toolchain: awk, sed, ...) Technologies: Hadoop, Nutch, Kafka, Solr, Ant, Junit, Cassandra, Pig.

Software Engineer @ Building infrastructure systems to make the world more connected. From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) PMC member and Committer at Apache Nutch @ Contributing to the open source project, Apache Nutch, by fixing bugs and helping people over user group. I am mainly focused for improvements with the crawling phases (inject, generate, fetch, update). Notable features / Jiras I have worked on: ------------------------------------------------------------- Support sitemaps in Nutch : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1465 HostDB for Nutch : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1325 Make Injector a single mapreduce job : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1712 From January 2013 to Present (3 years) Intern at Data Infrastructure Group @ Worked on Apache Kafka, the distributed pub-sub messaging system developed at Linkedin. My project was a new feature for Apache Kafka: Inbuilt Offset Management for Kafka Consumers. This feature would remove the dependency on Zookeeper for offset storage and would store the conusmer offsets in Kafka itself. Here is a wiki of the implementation details: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Inbuilt+Consumer+Offset+Management Apache Kafka Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1012 From June 2013 to September 2013 (4 months) Senior Software Engineer @ • Worked on design and implementation of an enterprise search engine. • Complete ownership of the crawler module. Enhanced the Apache Nutch crawler as per design requirements, added features to it, fixed bugs and managed build and deliveries. • Developed analytics for web-data in IBMs’ JAQL (Java Annotated Query Language) • Used HBase for data storage. Knowledge about Cassandra and basic querying using Pig. • Backend cluster setup and management. Worked on Amazon EC2. • Direct interaction with customers and clients (both written and verbal communication). • Got appreciation from customers, clients and peers for good quality deliverables and intergrity. From May 2012 to October 2012 (6 months) Pune Area, IndiaSoftware Engineer @ • Worked on design and implementation of an enterprise search engine. • Enhanced the Apache Nutch crawler as per design requirements, added features to it, fixed bugs. • Backend cluster setup and management. • Direct interaction with customers and clients (both written and verbal communication). • Awarded “You Made a Difference” for my contribution (within 1 year after I joined). From June 2010 to May 2012 (2 years) Pune Area, IndiaEngineering Intern @ Worked as a project trainee in Software Engineering division at TRDDC. Work involved developing a algorithm for a given problem and creating a tool to depict it. More details on the project "Generic Semantic Program Differencing Tool" in the projects' section. From August 2009 to May 2010 (10 months) Pune Area, India

Master's degree, Computer Science @ University of California, Irvine From 2012 to 2013 BE, IT @ Maharashtra Institute of Technology From 2006 to 2010 12th Grade, Science @ Modern College, Pune From 2004 to 2006 10th Grade (SSC), 10th Grade @ Vidya Niketan From 1994 to 2004 Tejas P. is skilled in: Algorithms, Java, C++, Hadoop, Data Structures, Core Java, JSP, Eclipse, Python, Shell Scripting, JSON, C, JUnit, Ant, Nutch