# Ankur Pathela

> Staff Software Engineer @ Meta | Data Infra | Big Compute

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankurpathela

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Present | Menlo Park
- Leading efforts to nativize Spark workloads using Velox for 2x speedup and 25% cost reduction

- Led operational excellence charter with key projects like automated troubleshooting, history server reliability, build migration of UDFs, release pipeline stabilization, error actionability.

- Led security charter to address 10+ vulnerabilities and successfully onboard the high risk Novi(cryptocurrency) data pipelines.

- Drove 2yr migration of spark workloads to trusted gateway by implementing token based authentication, rpc traffic encryption, data at rest encryption, executor isolation, user code separation and shared blob bucket security. See my talk “Securing Apache Spark Applications at Facebook” at Spark + AI Summit 2020.

- Resolved complex dependency hell (500+ dependencies with 200k overlapping classes) in a forked Spark repo, reducing build times from 50 minutes to 30 seconds for 30+ devs.

### Senior Computer Scientist @ Adobe
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | United States

### Computer Scientist @ Adobe
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Member Technical Staff @ Adobe
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010

### Software Engineer @ Appulse Technologies Ltd
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007


## Education
### B.Tech in Electronics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

### St. Mark's


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankurpathela

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Last updated: 2026-04-12