Nirbhay Choubey
Team Lead at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNirbhay Choubey is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience in backend systems and databases, currently leading an engineering team at Bloomberg in New York. He progressed from software developer roles at Oracle and MariaDB to senior engineering and team lead responsibilities at Bloomberg, demonstrating deep expertise in distributed RDBMS and production-grade deployment. His open-source contributions include practical enhancements to Bloomberg’s comdb2—adding Docker support and client context messaging—highlighting a focus on operability and richer server-side request visibility. Nirbhay pairs strong systems-level engineering with hands-on operational improvements, and he holds an MS in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and a BE in Computer Science.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
English, Hindi, French
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Github Skills (19)
c1110
c1710
dockers9
docker9
database8
database-design8
database-administration8
administration8
databases8
sql7
api7
apidoc7
passwords6
cluster-computing6
galera6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bloomberg/comdb2
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer/AdministratorContributions:370 reviews, 532 commits, 788 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nirbhay implemented Docker support and added client context messages. They modified the core database code to integrate Docker support, including a shell script for container initialization. Moreover, the user introduced functionality for adding, retrieving, and manipulating client context messages within the database API. This work suggests a focus on improving the deployment and management of the database as well as enhancing the information available to the server about client requests.
rdbms
nirbhayc/comdb2
May 2017 - Mar 2024
Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS
Contributions:1 release, 1522 pushes, 438 branches in 6 years 10 months
bloombergdatabaserdbmsdistributed
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