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San Francisco Bay Area United StatesOccupation
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedInIndustry
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http://www.cs.umd.edu/~walaaAbout
I am a Software Engineer at the Data Infrastructure team at LinkedIn. Prior to that, I was a Researcher at the Data Management group at NEC Laboratories America, where I worked on Declarative Big Data Analytics in the Cloud. My background spans hardcore theoretical database foundations to large scale system building and optimization. My interests are in database management systems and machine learning, specifically over graph-structured data. I build full stack data management systems spanning query optimization, evaluation, parallelization, logical and physical plan generation, data partitioning, and aggregation. Currently, I am extending ideas from theoretical database management, decla...