David Hoa
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Hoa is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale web service infrastructure and database systems, currently driving core platform work at Databricks from Cupertino. He combines deep expertise in query optimization and DB2 internals with hands-on leadership of teams up to 20 engineers, making careful, strategic decisions that balance correctness and speed in high-risk distributed systems. At LinkedIn he led Service Infrastructure that powered service discovery, client-side load balancing, and distributed tracing, and has a track record of contributing to widely used internal and open-source frameworks. Early work at IBM on DB2 query optimizer and data transfer for Hadoop reflects a strong foundations-in-practice approach to performance-sensitive systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic mentor who helps engineers grow while shipping reliable, production-grade infrastructure. He holds an A.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard and favors engineering solutions that minimize blast radius while enabling rapid product iteration.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryA.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, A.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
restful10
json10
discovery10
rest-api10
swagger10
api10
architectures10
rest10
scalable10
restful-api10
jax-rs10
java8
async8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
linkedin/rest.li
Jan 2017 - Oct 2020
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Contributions:5 reviews, 37 PRs, 78 pushes in 3 years 9 months
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
linkedin/parseq
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Asynchronous Java made easier
Contributions:6 comments in 1 year 2 months
javaasynchronousasync
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