Prajwal Banakar
Software Engineer | Apache Fluss Contributor | GSoC'26
Welcome to my portfolio, where I document my journey, share technical insights, and explore the world of open source. I work on backend infrastructure and distributed systems — mostly Java, stream processing, and storage engines. Currently a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with the Apache Software Foundation.
Experience
Blog
From a small village in Karnataka to becoming a Google Summer of Code contributor with the Apache Software Foundation.
A beginner's guide to open source, GSoC, and a step-by-step plan to make your first contribution.
Projects
My flagship contribution: designing bitmap-native analytics for Apache Fluss, a distributed streaming storage system under the Apache Software Foundation.
Extension library implementing native bitmap analytics functions for Apache Flink and Apache Fluss, designed following FIP-37 — aggregate bitmap functions, set operations, cardinality queries, and a serialization layer.