Abhishek Balaji Radhakrishnan is an experienced software engineer and committer at Apache Druid, currently contributing to both The Apache Software Foundation since August 2023 and Imply as a Staff Software Engineer since November 2022. Prior experience includes a Technical Leader role at Cisco from February 2017 to November 2022 and multiple roles at Merit Network, including Software Engineering Research Intern, where a presentation was made at ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2016. Abhishek also served as a grader at USC Viterbi School of Engineering, a Graduate Student Researcher with a co-authored paper at ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2015, and an instructor for K12 computer science camps. Previous roles include Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a Summer Intern at Oracle Financial Services Software, and a Project Trainee at ISRO Satellite Center. Abhishek holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Anna University.