David Hoa
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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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 (2)
asynchronous10
java9
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
asynchronous
linkedin/parseq
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Asynchronous Java made easier
Contributions:6 comments in 1 year 2 months
asynchronousjava
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