Nikhil Sheoran
Software Engineer at Databricks
California, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Sheoran is a software engineer based in California with two years of industry experience focused on query optimization and database systems. He currently contributes to Databricks' Query Optimizer team and brings research-led rigor from his MS (thesis) at UIUC where he worked on online aggregation for nested queries. Prior roles at Adobe and Meta combined applied ML, systems research, and productionization—ranging from deep RL for cluster scheduling to ML-driven debugging of ranking models. He has teaching experience in advanced database systems and built automation for course grading, reflecting both strong technical depth and attention to developer experience. Known on GitHub for query optimizer–related work, he pairs academic precision with hands-on engineering to move research ideas into scalable systems.
2 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster of Science - MS (Thesis), Computer Science, 3.95, Master of Science - MS (Thesis), Computer Science, 3.95 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (15)
apache-spark10
big-data10
scale10
spark10
hadoop10
apache10
sql10
python10
jdbc10
analytics10
java10
large-scale10
data-processing10
r10
scala10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
nikhilsheoran-db/spark
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
apache/spark
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 9 months
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
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