Rick Bhowmick
Head Of Data Engineering
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRick Bhowmick is a seasoned data engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable data platforms and processing pipelines, currently serving as Head of Data Engineering at Coatue Management. He has a strong foundation in systems and backend engineering from roles at Google, Addepar, and Amazon, where he architected core aggregation frameworks and large-scale regression/load-test systems. Rick combines hands-on implementation—demonstrated by contributions to a Scala I/O library focused on safe, intuitive file operations—with strategic leadership running production data infrastructure for finance. Trained as a Turing Scholars computer scientist and Dean's Scholars mathematician at UT Austin, he brings rigorous problem-solving and a taste for creating elegant solutions to complex data challenges. Notably, he balances deep technical craft with the ability to translate messy requirements into auditable, high-throughput systems used in production.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Turing Scholars Honors Computer Science, B.S Turing Scholars Honors Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
33,138reputation
3.8mreached
90answers
234questions
java
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scala
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apache-spark
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runnable
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databricks
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Github Skills (20)
apache-spark10
java10
runnable10
scala10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
file-access10
databricks9
scopes9
executor-service6
dynamic-programming6
thread-pool6
sbt6
aspect6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pathikrit/better-files
Sep 2015 - Jun 2022
Simple, safe and intuitive Scala I/O
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 855 commits, 343 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rick implemented core features for a Scala I/O library, primarily focusing on file system operations and functionality. The commits involved creating and extending the file and path wrappers, adding functionality for basic input/output operations, including writing, reading, and appending content to files. The user also worked on improving code style, adding more utilities for file manipulation, such as globbing and calculating checksums, with a design for creating more advanced utilities.
scalajava-interoperabilityscanner
pathikrit/newswall
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Rotate and display latest newspapers on e-ink display
Contributions:13 reviews, 297 commits, 18 PRs in 3 months
e-inkeinknewspapernodejs
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