Architecting Apache Samza - a generic stream processing framework - to be elastic and usable as a library by using Zookeeper for coordination

Design provides customizable coordination primitives that enables Samza to be executed across various deployment environments such as Yarn, containerized environment like ECS, Azure etc

On Feed Personalization Infrastructure:

* Improved pagination model used in LinkedIn's homepage feed

* Enabled PYMK results to be ranked and rendered in the feed

* Integrated the Play-based homepage to use the new light-weight Feed API , which involved translating request/response data and also, asynchronously decorate the various entities in the response so that it renders in parity with the older API

* Investigated the use of Samza to setup the realtime data pipeline in feed infrastructure

On Samza:

* Migrated to use the new Java-based Kafka Producer

* Investigated and added Zopkio - an integration test framework to Samza

* Implemented local state re-use and host-affinity in Samza

Interested in Systems - Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Volunteer Programmer/Assistant at Center for Autonomic Computing, University of Florida