Shawn Debnath
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Debnath is a senior staff software engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building large-scale databases, cloud services, and resilient systems from OS-level components to managed cloud databases. He has driven architecture and delivery at industry leaders including Databricks, eBay, and AWS—where he led Aurora PostgreSQL features like Serverless V1/V2, multi-tenant designs, and high-availability upgrades—while also co-founding startups to build secure, scalable platforms. Comfortable switching between hands-on systems coding (C/C#/Node/Erlang) and long-term strategic leadership, he mentors teams to ship complex distributed systems at scale. An early contributor to the JabberD XMPP server, he brings an uncommon blend of deep storage/RDBMS expertise and practical operational tooling. Based in Seattle, he combines product intuition with a developer-first approach to turn demanding performance and availability requirements into production-ready services.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (7)
c1710
user-authentication10
xmpp10
authentication10
c1110
sasl10
database-management9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jabberd2/jabberd2
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
JabberD XMPP Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Shawn made several significant contributions related to the core functionality of the JabberD XMPP server. They implemented C2S user data and authreg API extensions, modifying the SASL authentication process by introducing per-session contexts and incorporating stream information. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to data storage and authentication mechanisms by modifying existing modules. This included debugging invalid values stored in databases and refactoring code to improve overall stability.
xmppjabberservercembedded
openmach/mach4
May 2017 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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