Sandeep U
Engineering Manager at Databricks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandeep U is an engineering manager with 11 years building and leading teams that operate at exabyte scale, currently managing engineering at Databricks after senior leadership roles at Dropbox where he led the Magic Pocket storage infrastructure. He brings deep systems and storage expertise from Microsoft Azure Archive and NetApp, with hands-on experience designing planet-scale archival tiers and production optimizations. Known for moving between hands-on backend contributions and people leadership, he has directly improved cloud storage tooling—contributing backend fixes and Azure Blob integration work to the widely used rclone project. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends research rigor from a Computer Science MS with pragmatic product delivery across large distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate storage theory into resilient, testable implementations and to scale teams alongside infrastructure. He often surfaces non-obvious gains by improving developer testing workflows and emulator support, speeding delivery of complex storage features.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of MinnesotaJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Github Skills (12)
golang10
azure-blob-storage10
go10
azure-storage10
blobs10
azure-sdk10
cloud-storage10
back-end-development9
aws-s38
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
encryption7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rclone/rclone
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Sandeep primarily contributed to the backend of the `rclone/rclone` repository, focusing on enhancing and refactoring the Azure Blob Storage integration. Their work included porting the Azure Blob Storage SDK, incorporating new features such as access tier configuration, and fixing multi-part upload issues. They also updated the Azure SDK version and implemented support for the Azure Storage Emulator, improving the testing and development process.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
sandeepkru/azureBlobLeaseUtil
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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