Preslav Le
Principal Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPreslav Le is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with deep expertise building and scaling storage and distributed systems across startups and hyperscale infrastructure. He led major initiatives at Dropbox to rebuild petabyte-scale transactional stores and migrate massive S3 workloads into a proprietary multi-exabyte storage system, and later helped scale Convex’s backend as a founding engineer. Now at Databricks he continues to shape storage platform architecture, combining hands-on systems design with operational experience across thousands of servers. His career blends startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability, having shipped low-level driver improvements at NVIDIA and tackled VM scalability at VMware. A parent and martial-arts enthusiast, Preslav brings disciplined problem-solving and a long view on performance, cost, and automation trade-offs. Despite a compact public contributions footprint, his impact is evident in the large-scale production systems he architected and operated.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
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Github Skills (18)
javascript9
react9
frontend9
user-interface8
declarative8
typescript7
copy-on-write6
go6
backbonejs6
querystring6
url-routing6
router6
memory-profiling4
profiling3
memory-management3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
get-convex/edge-data-latency
Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Visualize the latency of databases at the Edge.
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
preslavle/convex-chess
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Chess build on Convex
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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