Gopal Holla
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolGopal Holla is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage systems, query engines, and data governance platforms. At Databricks he leads efforts to scale and stabilize Unity Catalog after designing core platform and storage components for unified governance of data and AI assets. Previously at LinkedIn he built privacy-first access to the Economic Graph and contributed to Ambry in distributed data systems, blending low-level storage expertise with product-facing platform work. He excels at system architecture, technical alignment, and driving delivery while mentoring teams and improving engineering processes. Gopal’s work consistently targets scalable, maintainable solutions that solve real business problems, and he values creating extensible platforms that simplify governance across diverse assets. Based in San Jose, he pairs deep technical craft with a deliberate focus on team dynamics and operational stability.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
mysql10
distributed-systems10
java10
osgi10
scale10
embeddable10
sql10
serverless10
elastic10
database10
postgresql9
oltp9
foundationdb9
analytics9
linkedin-api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vgkholla/FPLChampionshipTracker
Jan 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
vgkholla/ambry
May 2016 - Mar 2019
Immutable blob store
Contributions:856 pushes, 410 branches, 194 tags in 2 years 10 months
qbcore-frameworkblobimmutableblob-store
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