Arpit Saxena
Software Engineer II at Yugabyte
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArpit Saxena is a software engineer II at Yugabyte with nine years of experience in systems and backend development. He earned a B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi, graduating with a 9.569/10, underscoring a strong blend of theory and practical engineering. His prior roles at Quadeye and NimbleEdge showcased his ability to deliver scalable backend tooling and distributed system improvements. In open source, he contributed to tursodatabase/limbo, boosting I/O fault tolerance, io_uring handling with a pending_ops mechanism, and refactoring record sorting from BTreeMap to Vec for performance. Based in Bengaluru, he combines curiosity-driven project work with production-grade software, and he continues to build projects for fun.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Hindi, English
Github Skills (8)
io-uring10
databases10
rust10
embedded-database10
database10
sql8
webassemby5
webassembly5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tursodatabase/limbo
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Limbo is a project to build the modern evolution of SQLite.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Arpit primarily focused on improving the performance and robustness of the database's I/O operations. They implemented features to handle I/O faults within the simulator, specifically targeting the `RowResult::IO` case, to increase the resilience of the SQLite evolution. Additionally, they added logic to manage the `io_uring` operations, including a `pending_ops` count, to prevent indefinite hangs and optimize the `run_once` function. They also refactored the `sorter` to use a `Vec` instead of `BTreeMap` for records.
databaseembedded-databasesqlsqlite3webassembly
arpit-saxena/schedule-maker
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Generate ics file given a set of courses and slots
Contributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
icsslots
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