Chavdar Botev
Sr. Staff Engineer at Databricks
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChavdar Botev is a Sr. Staff Engineer with 15+ years building and operating high-performance, internet-scale distributed systems, currently at Databricks after leadership roles at Salesforce and LinkedIn. His PhD work at Cornell on integrating structured and full-text search influenced the W3C XQuery/XPath Full Text standard, reflecting a rare blend of deep research and production engineering. At LinkedIn he architected Databus and Gobblin to reliably move and manage petabytes of data across clusters, and at Yahoo designed Layer 7 routing used for billion-request A/B testing in a live ad exchange. He founded Griddable.io to simplify cross-database synchronization across on-prem and cloud environments, showing entrepreneurial drive alongside systems craftsmanship. A pragmatic contributor to open source (notably fixes and hardening work in Apache Gobblin), he combines attention to code quality with large-scale architectural thinking.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Computer Science, M.Sc, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityM.Sc, Informatics, M.Sc, Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
javas10
software-quality10
java10
build-automation9
testing9
apache7
data-ingestion6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/gobblin
Feb 2015 - May 2017
A distributed data integration framework that simplifies common aspects of big data integration such as data ingestion, replication, organization and lifecycle management for both streaming and batch data ecosystems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 222 commits, 339 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chavdar primarily focused on fixing FindBugs warnings, addressing build issues, and resolving various code quality issues within the codebase. They made changes to several Java files, including State.java and ClustersNames.java, to improve code quality and address potential vulnerabilities. They also added and modified scripts to support the build process. Furthermore, the user worked on testing to improve the robustness of the codebase.
datadcosdata-streambig-data-integrationbatch-data
chavdar/gobblin-1
Feb 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:378 pushes, 284 branches in 2 years 2 months
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