Shashwat Arghode
Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolShashwat Arghode is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable, data-driven backend systems and distributed infrastructure, currently shaping the Data and AI Platform at Robinhood. He has deep expertise in Java, relational and NoSQL databases (including Cassandra, JanusGraph/Titan), and experience optimizing large-scale data pipelines and query engines from his work on Presto at Yahoo. Early career roles at Veritas and Symantec gave him strong domain knowledge in high availability, resiliency management, and performance tuning—skills he pairs with a Certified Cassandra Developer credential. Known for reducing operational toil through automation and loosely coupled microservice design, he also contributed to open-source Presto and PyHive projects during his internship. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends practical production experience with a continual drive to learn and apply new data and infrastructure technologies.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute Of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (51)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
hiveserver210
delta-lake10
apache-flink10
prestodb10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
big-data10
data-analytics10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
indexing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ShashwatArghode/presto-1
Jun 2019 - Dec 2023
Official home of Presto, the distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:43 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months
jdbchbasebigdataoracle-databasebig-data
ShashwatArghode/presto
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 8 months
queryhivebigdataquery-enginesql
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