Dahlia Malkhi
Professor Of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDahlia Malkhi is a Professor of Computer Science at UCSB and a pioneering researcher in distributed systems and blockchain-enabled financial technology who has translated two decades of academic theory into industrial impact. She has held senior research and leadership roles at Chainlink Labs, Diem, VMware Research, and Microsoft Research, and co-founded VMware Research, blending deep theoretical insight with product-grade engineering. Her work spans reliability, security, and consensus for distributed systems, with over 200 publications and hands-on contributions to systems like CorfuDB that improve cluster consistency and multi-read performance. As an advisor to startups in space, crypto, and privacy-preserving finance, she routinely bridges cutting-edge research and real-world deployments. Notably, she pairs classical academic credentials and a PhD from Hebrew University with pragmatic systems development, from refactoring Thrift-based back ends to shaping industry standards.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Github Skills (7)
javas10
distributed-systems10
thrift10
java10
concurrency9
database9
databases9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CorfuDB/CorfuDB
Sep 2013 - Jul 2017
A cluster consistency platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:218 commits, 152 PRs, 383 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dahlia's contributions primarily focused on modifying and refactoring Thrift-based interfaces and implementations for the CorfuDB project. The commits include significant changes to the data structures, methods and parameters of the system. The user made enhancements to the append/read operations to work with a list of byte buffers and also added multi-read functionalities. The user also integrated the test infrastructure.
nosqlconsensusstreamingdatastoredistributed-database
dahliamalkhi/dahliamalkhi.github.io
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1367 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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