About

Achyuth Samudrala is a skilled Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the field of data engineering and data infrastructure. Currently working at Facebook, he has a strong background in building petabyte scale ingestion infrastructure/pipelines and change data capture infrastructure using Flink. He has also worked on improving legacy data pipelines and making them horizontally scalable, and has experience in developing large scale batch processing systems using Spark/Hive. Achyuth has extensive experience in building reactive micro-services using Java, Scala, and Akka. He is proficient in setting up end-to-end solutions on bare metal and containers, and has a deep understanding of complex software systems and lambda architectures in the area of big data analytics/parallel data processing. He has hands-on experience in identifying and troubleshooting issues in a vast array of big data technologies. Before joining Facebook, Achyuth worked as a Senior Data Engineer at ing, where he was responsible for building reactive micro-services with Java and Scala, restructuring and optimizing legacy spark jobs, maintaining real-time data indexing infrastructure, and building real-time and batch processing data systems. He also worked at booking.com as a Software Engineer (Data), where he improved the ingestion speed of the most critical data pipeline by 3-4x and developed a microservice to easily identify data dependencies between ETL workloads. He led the ingestion team to build the most critical data pipelines at Booking.com in its efforts to migrate to GCP, and built the streaming pipeline for incremental MySQL ingestion using Flink. Achyuth holds a Bachelor of Technology and Masters (By research) in Computer Science from iiit Hyderabad. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Software Engineering, infra, Spark, Data Engineering, Big Data, Scala, Microservices, Java, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Cassandra, Kafka, and Apache Hive. With a keen interest and passion for working in the fields of distributed systems and massive data processing systems, Achyuth is a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer who is dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions to complex problems.