Sanjit Jhala
Principal Engineer at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSanjit Jhala is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing highly available, scalable systems and deep expertise in C++ and large-scale databases. Based in San Jose, he currently holds senior technical leadership roles at Databricks and Google, where he focuses on ranking and search quality and system architecture. He is known for building resilient storage and hypertable-style database solutions that operate at internet scale and for translating research-grade ideas into production services. A product-minded engineer with leadership experience, he blends hands-on design with mentoring and cross-functional delivery. Trained at IIT Kharagpur and UC Santa Cruz, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with a track record of solving hard infrastructure problems in top-tier engineering organizations.
17 years of coding experience
University of California Santa CruzBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (3)
scalability9
database9
sql9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sjhalaz/hypertable
Mar 2009 - Jan 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 2 years 10 months
nuggetwheat/hypertable
Mar 2009 - May 2011
Contributions:164 commits in 2 years 1 month
sqlfocusedperformancedatabasescalability
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