Deepayan Patra
Software Engineer at Databricks
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepayan Patra is a software engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance systems, currently at Databricks after completing MSCS research at Carnegie Mellon under Andy Pavlo. He has deep systems and database expertise—contributing to CMU's NoisePage self-driving DBMS by optimizing NUMA-aware resource management, improving WAL throughput, and enhancing index benchmarking (BwTree, HashIndex). His work has delivered dramatic gains (up to 700x on worst-case workloads and 3–4x on scans) and added practical language/runtime features like VERSION(). He pairs research rigor with product-focused internships at Neeva and Yugabyte, and a background in teaching and mentoring that sharpens his ability to communicate complex ideas. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends developer, designer, and technologist sensibilities to move research prototypes toward production-ready performance.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Science and Technology Summer Program, Computer Science, Science and Technology Summer Program, Computer Science at Pennsylvania Governor's School for the SciencesMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceHigh School Diploma, QPA: 4.84 | Valedictorian, High School Diploma, QPA: 4.84 | Valedictorian at Mars Area Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, QPA: 3.89, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, QPA: 3.89 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Bengali
Github Skills (21)
benchmark10
c-language10
admin10
databases10
benchmarking10
database-administration10
dbm10
cprogramming-language10
dbms10
database10
data-structure9
performance-monitor9
performance-analytics9
algorithm9
algorithms9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/noisepage
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Self-Driving Database Management System from Carnegie Mellon University
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Deepayan's commits primarily focus on enhancing the database management system. They've worked on performance benchmarks, particularly around index structures, including BwTree and HashIndex. They also made changes to the benchmarking framework and configuration, improving the ability to test and evaluate the system. Further contributions include exposing configuration parameters for the BwTree and adding support for the VERSION() built-in function.
management-systemdbmsdatabase-management-systemcarnegie-mellon-universityself-driving
thepinetree/noisepage
Oct 2019 - May 2021
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Contributions:299 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 7 months
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