Satyam Shekhar
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSatyam Shekhar is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently driving platform work at Databricks from San Jose. He has deep expertise in algorithms, low-level micro-optimizations, and building warehouse-native analytics platforms—skills honed as Co-Founder and Head of Engineering at NetSpring and over six years leading core infrastructure and query engine projects at ThoughtSpot. His track record includes designing a pull-based JIT tuple-at-a-time SQL engine in C++, a natural-language search indexing pipeline, and techniques to boost caching hit rates from 53% to 99%. A former Google networking engineer, he brings production-hardened latency reduction experience (SPDY/QUIC era) and a research background from EPFL, paired with an IIT Guwahati degree in Math & CS. Colleagues know him for combining hands-on systems coding with hiring and team-building chops, and for tackling both architectural complexity and the smallest performance bottlenecks.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDelhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Github Skills (39)
connection-manager10
xmpp9
bosh9
websocket9
nodejs9
chat9
cpp8
sdk8
aws8
aws-sdk8
javascript8
intellij7
intellij-plugin7
cross-platform7
ide5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
satyamshekhar/dotfiles
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
satyamshekhar/doom-emacs-config
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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