Summary
Deka Akbar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at Databricks building IDEs, interactive tooling, and environment management to empower data users. With an MS from Columbia and hands-on roles spanning research, data engineering, and product-focused tooling, he bridges distributed systems and practical data workflows. He has built cloud-native filesystem abstractions, self-service forecasting and A/B tools, and research prototypes leveraging SQLite and DuckDB for cloud join processing. A lifelong learner and “data tamer,” he combines academic research experience with production engineering to democratize data and accelerate decision-making. Notably, his background includes both developer tools at scale and curriculum-driven teaching roles that sharpen his ability to translate complex systems into usable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code Camp
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
High School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at SMA Negeri 1 Bogor
English, Indonesian