Pushkin Abbott
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPushkin Abbott is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend storage systems at Databricks from Amsterdam. He specializes in cloud-native storage, encryption, deployment automation and observability—primarily in Scala on Kubernetes, with recent forays into Rust for performance-critical components. Pushkin led major platform upgrades like ADLS Gen2 support and Azure Firewall integration for DBFS, and designed cross-cloud encryption and key rotation infrastructure now protecting 2000+ enterprise workspaces. He also modernized internal deployment tooling to slash deploy times from hours to seconds, directly improving developer velocity and reliability. Known wryly on GitHub as an "aspiring yakshaver," he blends deep engineering craft with practical operational improvements that scale across global cloud environments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science at Step by Step High SchoolComputer Science Honours Co-operative Program Computer Science, Computer Science Honours Co-operative Program Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (60)
git10
multithreading10
github10
patch9
command-line-interface9
elm9
asmjs9
concurrency9
emscripten9
rust8
rich-text-editor8
jsx8
text-editing8
wysiwyg8
compatibility8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gotibhai/pushkinabbott
Nov 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
react
gotibhai/carrot-rabbit-wolf-simulation
Feb 2019 - Aug 2024
This is an attempt at making a simulation for Carrots, Rabbit, Wolves in Elixir
Contributions:16 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 6 months
wolveselixirrabbitsimulation
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