Babatunde Okutubo
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBabatunde Okutubo is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building high-quality, large-scale distributed services across data, security, commerce, and trading domains. He has deep engine-level expertise—from SQL columnar storage and Synapse/Delta Lake integration at Microsoft to streaming engine work on Apache Spark at Databricks—and a track record of designing storage optimizers and auto-tuners with patented innovations. At Dropbox he powered data infrastructure for ML, BI and experimentation, and his open-source contributions include impactful fixes and improvements to widely used projects like Apache Spark (Kafka connector and ForeachBatch sink) and osquery. Based in Seattle, he blends systems-level rigor with practical engineering: refactoring legacy C into modern designs, automating cloud migrations, and improving fault diagnostics in critical streaming paths. Notably, his background spans both security tooling and high-throughput data pipelines, giving him a rare cross-cutting perspective on resilience and observability.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree ECE/Telecommunications Engineering (Advanced networking & security), Master’s Degree ECE/Telecommunications Engineering (Advanced networking & security) at University of MarylandBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of IbadanGraduate Certificate Advanced Software Systems, Graduate Certificate Advanced Software Systems at Stanford University
English, French
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
apache-spark10
c-language10
big-data10
kafka10
java10
scala10
javas10
sql10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
ssl9
networking9
linux9
security8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/spark
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 7 PRs, 148 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Babatunde primarily focused on improving the Apache Spark Kafka connector and the ForeachBatch sink. Their contributions included implementing error classes to provide better error messages in Kafka data loss scenarios and for user function failures in the ForeachBatch sink. They also addressed bugs related to RocksDB file reuse and improved the handling of timestamp offsets in Kafka.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
osquery/osquery
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Babatunde contributed to the osquery project by implementing new features and addressing bug fixes across various modules. The commits included converting Linux process events, creating a new SSL cert table, adding IPTables port features, and reporting process limits for different operating systems. Furthermore, the user enhanced the `rpm_packages` table by adding the epoch field, and fixed database and disk encryption features.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
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