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Slim Bouguerra

Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn

I build exa-scale SQL data infrastructure on Trino. PMC member at Apache Druid, committer at Apache Hive. Climber and backcountry skier when the laptop closes.

San Jose, California

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About

I'm a Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, leading a team that designs, builds and operates exa-scale SQL data platforms on Trino (Presto). With 10+ years in distributed data processing, I've shipped systems that range from sub-second OLAP over petabytes to SQL data-warehousing over exabytes of data lake.

I'm a PMC member of Apache Druid and a committer at Apache Hive, with active contributions to Apache Calcite. I care deeply about query optimization, performance, and the kind of code that keeps running at 3 a.m.

Outside of computers, you'll find me on alpine granite, on a glacier, or skinning up something steep.

  • Trino
  • SQL
  • OLAP
  • Distributed Systems
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Apache Druid
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Calcite
  • Query Optimization
  • Java

Education

  • PhD, Computer Science · Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP)
    Multi-objective fault-tolerance scheduling for parallel and distributed systems.

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Manager

    Sep 2022 — Present

    LinkedIn · Sunnyvale, CA

    Lead the team behind LinkedIn's exa-scale Trino platform — query optimization, reliability, and capacity for the largest analytics workloads at the company.

  2. Staff Software Engineer

    Mar 2020 — Feb 2023

    LinkedIn · Sunnyvale, CA

    Built and scaled core SQL infrastructure on Trino. Drove performance, query planning, and federation work.

  3. Staff Software Engineer

    Jun 2016 — Mar 2020

    Cloudera · Santa Clara, CA

    Brought Apache Druid to the Hortonworks Data Platform. Deep work across Hive and Druid integration.

  4. Software Engineer (Druid Project)

    Oct 2014 — Oct 2016

    Yahoo · Urbana-Champaign, IL

    Designed and implemented algorithms processing hundreds of billions of data points per day on Apache Druid.

  5. Postdoctoral Researcher

    Feb 2012 — Oct 2014

    INRIA & UIUC Joint Lab / Argonne National Laboratory · Urbana-Champaign · Greater Chicago

    Failure prediction, fault tolerance, and parallel job scheduling for large-scale supercomputers.

Now what's a now page?

  • Scaling LinkedIn's Trino platform — query optimization and reliability at exa-scale.
  • Pushing on Apache Druid PMC work and reviewing community PRs.
  • Climbing granite in the Sierras and chasing spring corn on skis.

On the Board

Six years of Tension Board sessions, logged and charted.

Ascents
661
Unique Climbs
389
Hardest Send
7b/V8
Session Days
155

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Projects

Public work pulled live from GitHub.

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Publications

Selected peer-reviewed work.

  • Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing

    SIGMOD 2019 — Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Management of Data

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  • Improving the Computing Efficiency of HPC Systems Using a Combination of Proactive and Preventive Checkpointing

    IEEE IPDPS 2013 — 27th International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing

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