Amit Chavan
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAmit Chavan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native data management and storage systems, currently driving low-latency query execution and CDC streams for Unistore at Snowflake. He previously led governance and ACID transaction features for AWS Lake Formation and built metadata search, discovery, and lineage platforms at AWS. Amit’s background blends deep research (Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland) with production engineering, giving him fluency in database internals, physical storage design, and multi-tenant cloud services. He has a proven track record of optimizing analytical workloads, enabling high-concurrency transactional SQL, and delivering time-travel and storage optimizations. Comfortable moving between research and large-scale product delivery, he often surfaces practical system trade-offs that speed development without sacrificing correctness. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Amit pairs academic rigor with hands-on execution to solve complex data management problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of MarylandBTech, Computer Engineering, BTech, Computer Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Hindi
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
amit-chavan/amit-chavan.github.io
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
abadid/cmsc424-spring2018
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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