Summary
Neelesh A is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience, currently building Notebook Dataplane features at Databricks after roles at Canopy and ThoughtSpot. He has a strong track record of performance and reliability improvements—reducing create-table latency from minutes to seconds, automating downtime mitigation with cycle detection, and shipping extensible CRUD RPCs adopted by 10+ engineers. Neelesh pairs systems-level technical depth (modern C++, Java, distributed metadata) with product-focused impact, having cut migration and troubleshooting times by hours through thoughtful re-architecture and customer-facing fixes. With an MSE from UPenn and a high-achieving CS background from PES University, he also served as a graduate teaching assistant, shaping course material across data structures and operating systems. Based in Seattle, he blends research-minded rigor with hands-on shipping discipline, often learning new languages and patterns quickly to solve production problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, CGPA : 9.72, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, CGPA : 9.72 at PES University
Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science, Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania