Yash Kothari
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYash Kothari is a systems-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency infrastructure and production systems, currently at Databricks in Mountain View. His background blends industry work—designing low-latency trading systems and accelerating on-device AI—and rigorous research from CMU, where he co-authored multiple papers on congestion control and network behavior. He has hands-on experience optimizing I/O (including io_uring) and pushing performance on custom DSPs, demonstrating a practical knack for squeezing latency and throughput out of complex stacks. Comfortable across C++ and modern systems tooling, Yash bridges research insights and production engineering to solve hard performance problems. Colleagues would note his rare combination of trading-grade systems experience and academic contributions to network measurement and congestion analysis.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Mathematics and Computing, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiHigh School, High School at Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar IndoreMaster of Science - MS Information Networking (Computer Systems), Master of Science - MS Information Networking (Computer Systems) at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (71)
robotics9
database9
golang8
relational8
clipboard8
database-management8
document-database8
key-value8
ros7
transactional7
java7
racing7
go7
gazebosim7
csharp7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
itsyashkothari/shashwat
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
yashkothari42/yashkothari42.github.io
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
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Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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