Swasti Kakker
Software Development Engineer, LinkedIn

Swasti Kakker is a software development engineer on the data team at LinkedIn, where she worked on the design and implementation of hosted notebooks, specifically a hosted solutions of Jupyter notebooks. She works closely with stakeholders to understand the expectations and requirements of the platform that would improve developer productivity. Previously, she worked with the Spark team, discussing how Dr. Elephant can improve Spark History Server to make it more scalable to cater to traffic. She’s also contributed to adding the Spark heuristics in Dr. Elephant after understanding the needs of the stakeholders (mainly Spark developers) which gave her good knowledge about Spark infrastructure, Spark parameters, and how to tune them efficiently. Her passion lies in increasing and improving developer productivity by designing and implementing scalable platforms.