Rohit Agrawal
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Agrawal is a database and systems engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, reliable infrastructure for large-scale OLTP and AI systems. He has deep expertise in transaction processing, storage engines (LSM trees, key-value stores), and Postgres internals, honed through multiple roles at Salesforce and significant open-source contributions to CMU’s peloton self-driving DBMS (zone maps, predicate evaluation, codegen integration). At Tecton he scaled core AI infrastructure—leading teams that delivered low-latency streaming, realtime serving at 100K+ QPS, and cost-efficient batch compute using Ray, DuckDB, Arrow and Spark—before joining Databricks via the Tecton acquisition. Based in New York and a CMU alum, Rohit combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, having grown and led distributed senior teams across SF, NYC, and Seattle. Notably, his background spans both deep database internals and production ML feature/serving platforms, making him adept at bridging low-level systems work with real-time AI product needs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
code-generation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/peloton
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:43 commits, 9 PRs, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rohit contributed significantly to the self-driving database management system, specifically focusing on core database features. Their commits reveal a focus on zone map implementation, predicate evaluation, and the integration of these features within the code generation process. The contributions also included the creation and management of zone map catalog APIs.
management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase
rohit-cmu/peloton
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
management-systemdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabasedatabase-management
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