Abhay Bothra
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAbhay Bothra is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and systems generalist with 11 years of experience building reliable, large-scale infrastructure across AI, blockchain, and data platforms. Based in San Francisco, he co-founded and served as CTO of Fennel AI (acquired by Databricks) where he solved feature engineering with declarative pipelines and incremental view maintenance, and now works at Databricks on Lakeflow x AI. His background spans founding engineering roles and platform leadership at ThoughtSpot and Rocket Fuel, production AI infrastructure work at Facebook (including leading Diem/Libra networking and wire protocol design), and building multi-tenant ML platforms at startups. He’s a pragmatic executor who pairs low-level networking and systems expertise (e.g., DirectSend state synchronizer for Diem) with product-minded architecture for scalable operational workflows. An active angel investor, he selectively backs infrastructure and AI/SaaS startups, reflecting a penchant for platforms that unlock developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
rpc10
rust10
network-protocol10
protobuffer10
networking10
protobuf10
blockchain10
cryptography9
serialization9
serializer9
distributed-systems9
serializable9
deserialization9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
diem/diem
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 76 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Abhay contributed to the development of core back-end features for the Diem blockchain project, focusing on network infrastructure and communication protocols. They implemented a state synchronizer network client using the DirectSend protocol for efficient data transfer, including message serialization and deserialization. The user refactored and integrated modules, such as state synchronization into the network builder, and added RPC utility functions for enhanced functionality. They also performed code refactoring to adapt to the latest networking library changes, including the handling of connection close events.
diemfinancialtrustedethereumblockchain
bothra90/libra
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
Contributions:230 pushes, 125 branches, 1 comment in 11 months
financialreactjavascriptinfrastructurecurrency
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