Raghav Sethi
Co-Founder CTO at Milana
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaghav Sethi is a seasoned software leader and founder with a decade of experience building scalable, user-focused systems from backend engines to polished web UIs. As Co-Founder and CTO of Milana and formerly Lightpage, he combines product sensibility with deep technical execution to deliver privacy-forward, AI-augmented consumer experiences. At Airtable he led multiple critical teams—AI, Sharing, Permissions, and Sync—shipping the company’s first paid AI add-on bundle and foundational performance improvements for large bases. Earlier at Facebook he was a Staff Engineer on Presto/Trino, contributing to scheduler, admission control, and a revamped web interface, and he continues to contribute UI and server improvements to the widely used Trino/Presto projects. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and product leadership, he’s known for turning hard technical problems into elegant, accessible products. Trained at Princeton and IIIT-Delhi, he brings academic rigor to pragmatic system design and developer-friendly tooling.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, DelhiMaster of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), Computer Science, Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.), Computer Science at Princeton University
English
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
query-builder10
webui10
query-engine10
react10
java9
distributed-systems9
sql9
javas9
html9
performance-optimization8
big-data8
css8
query-optimization7
eclipse6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prestodb/presto
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:186 commits, 528 PRs, 228 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Raghav made multiple contributions related to the Presto Web UI, updating its appearance and functionality. They refactored the code to load Roboto font from Google CDN, and improved the visibility of scheduled and blocked time information in the query details view. Further enhancements include adding a helper method, improving progress bar titles and removing unnecessary section separators to streamline the user experience. In addition, the user worked on integrating worker status information and adding client tags to improve the user experience.
distributed-sqlquerybigdataquery-enginesql
trinodb/trino
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 53 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Raghav's commits primarily involve changes to the web UI and server-side components of the Trino query engine. These changes include updating web UI components to load fonts from a CDN, improving the visibility of query statistics in the UI, and adding and refining stats counters within the TaskExecutor. Furthermore, the user has made changes to several files in the web application and other files related to the system performance and management.
prestodbdbmsindexingjdbcbigdata
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