Summary
Joseph D'silva is a data systems specialist and researcher with over 20 years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data management and distributed database systems across industry and academia. Currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle and formerly faculty at McGill, he brings deep expertise in database internals, relational and NoSQL systems, data warehousing, and near-data analytics. He is the founder and lead developer of AIDA, an open-source Python framework that enables ML/analytics to run directly on databases without data movement or SQL knowledge, work that has been published in venues like VLDB and EDBT. Joseph combines hands-on engineering from roles at Cisco, Teradata, and IBM with academic mentorship of graduate teams, bridging research and production implementations. Based in Redwood City, he focuses on making complex, heterogeneous data sources queryable and analyzable at scale, often tackling the non-obvious challenges of integrating data science workflows with database execution.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Cochin University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at McGill University