Prajwal Banakar

Software Engineer | GSoC'26 | Apache Fluss Contributor

Building backend systems. Breaking things. Fixing them. Contributing to open source along the way. Currently working on Apache Fluss through GSoC 2026.

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Blog

What is Apache Fluss? A GSoC Story on Making Real-Time Analytics Simpler

Why real-time deduplication is hard, how RoaringBitmaps solve it, and what FIP-37 brings to Apache Fluss.

May 28, 2026 · 4 min read

What is Open Source and Google Summer of Code?

A beginner's guide to open source, GSoC, and a step-by-step plan to make your first contribution.

May 20, 2026 · 6 min read

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Projects

Apache Fluss

Google Summer of Code 2026

My flagship contribution: designing bitmap-native analytics for Apache Fluss, a distributed streaming storage system under the Apache Software Foundation.

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RoaringBitmap Analytics UDFs

Extension library implementing native bitmap analytics functions for Apache Flink and Apache Fluss, designed following Fluss Improvement Proposal [FIP-37] aggregate bitmap functions, set operations, cardinality queries, and a serialization layer.

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