Ashish Paliwal
Senior Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Paliwal is a Senior Engineer in San Francisco with over two decades of experience building cloud-native, large-scale distributed data systems that wrangle petabytes of data. He has a strong track record in designing data processing platforms and data lakes—reducing production incidents and SLA misses through pragmatic re-architecture and automation at companies including Apple, Oracle Cloud, WalmartLabs, and Sumo Logic. An open-source committer and long-time Apache PMC member (MINA, Flume), he brings rigorous testing and reliability improvements to widely used projects. Known for enabling multi-cloud capabilities and standardizing cloud authorization across teams, he blends deep systems engineering with cross-organizational collaboration. He’s equally comfortable leading teams and diving into hands-on implementation, and holds a Stanford advanced certificate in computer security that informs his secure-by-design approach. A practical innovator, he often turns legacy, slow workflows into high-performance, cost-efficient pipelines that scale to hundreds of thousands of daily runs.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Electroncis and telecomm, B.E., Electroncis and telecomm at Shr Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of EngineeringStanford Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer Security, Stanford Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer Security at Stanford University
Github Skills (5)
javas10
junit10
network-programming10
java10
testing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mina
Mar 2009 - Jul 2013
Mirror of Apache MINA
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ashish's contributions primarily focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the Apache MINA project through extensive testing. They added assertions to empty catch blocks and added messages to fail() calls to improve PMD reporting and test clarity. They also addressed PMD warnings by removing unused imports and fixed various issues in the existing test suite by adding or modifying assertions to ensure tests accurately reflect expected behavior.
apache-minaminajavanetwork-servernetwork-client
paliwalashish/orc
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Apache ORC - the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads
Contributions:54 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 6 months
orcworkloadscolumnar-storagefastestapache
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