# Abhishek Somani

> Staff Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhisheksomani

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Qubole
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area
Remote from Toronto since Dec 2019

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Qubole
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
Apache Hive lead at Qubole. 
I have worked on projects related to areas like Caching, Materialized Views, ACID, Security, Performance and Scaling in Hive. I have mentored and led multiple people and projects at Qubole, including cross engine projects pertaining to Spark and Presto, with Spark ACID being a recent one that we open sourced.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Citrix
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked with the NetScaler Infra team which was responsible for multiple components of the NetScaler infrastructure. I have worked on the AAA, ICA, HDX-Insight, AppFlow, and SSLVPN components, encompassing multiple features of the NetScaler Application Delivery Controller.

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked with the VPN team in Cisco which provided enterprise VPN solutions in the form of its products EzVPN, DMVPN and FLEXVPN, built on top of IKE (v1 and v2) and IPSec.


## Education
### Bachelor of technology in Electronics and Communication engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhishek-somani-a946aa1b

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Last updated: 2026-04-12