Manish Malhotra
Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolManish Malhotra is a software engineer with four years of hands-on experience building back-end systems and contributing to high-profile open-source projects. He has been a contributor to Trino, the distributed SQL query engine, where he focused on the Iceberg connector—adding features like a hidden path column, support for sorted_by table property, and fixes to prevent metastore lock-related table corruption. Comfortable working on distributed query engines and storage metadata, he brings practical expertise in preventing data integrity issues in complex systems. Though early in his career, his contributions to a widely used big-data repo demonstrate a knack for tackling nuanced backend problems that have outsized production impact.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer, Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer at UIT Bhopal
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Github Skills (21)
databases10
java10
javas10
sql10
apache-iceberg10
ice10
query-engine10
presto10
distributed-database10
database10
thrift8
data-science7
maven6
eclipse6
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:217 reviews, 1 commit, 21 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Manish primarily contributed to the Trino query engine, specifically focusing on the Iceberg connector. Their work involved adding and modifying features related to Iceberg metadata, including a hidden path column for queries. Furthermore, the user addressed a critical issue related to metastore lock release failures, preventing potential table corruption. They also implemented support for the `sorted_by` table property.
big-datasql-querytrinojavapresto
osscm/starrocks
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
StarRocks, a Linux Foundation project, is a next-generation sub-second MPP OLAP database for full analytics scenarios, including multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. InfoWorld’s 2023 BOSSIE Award for best open source software.
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 7 months
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