Manas Alekar
Principal Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolManas Alekar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 12 years of experience building high-performance systems and distributed data platforms. He currently drives engineering at ClickHouse after a long tenure at Netflix, bringing deep expertise in scalable, low-latency software and production-grade engineering practices. His background spans media and embedded systems from roles at Ooyala and Panasonic Avionics to research and early development work, giving him a strong blend of systems-level thinking and product-focused delivery. Known on GitHub as a "for loop writer," he pairs pragmatic code craftsmanship with architectural judgment, often operating at the intersection of performance optimization and developer ergonomics. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from USC and a BE in Electronics & Telecommunication, reflecting a solid foundation in both hardware-aware and software systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBE, Electronics & Telecommunication, BE, Electronics & Telecommunication at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (46)
big-data10
kafka10
analytics10
java10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
lambda10
embedded10
database-management10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
dbms10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix-Skunkworks/kinvolk-kubernetes
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Container Cluster Manager from Google
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
gcpk3dcontainer-clusterpodmandocker
alekar/ClickHouse
Aug 2025 - Nov 2025
ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 months
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