# Gautham Sunjay

> Software Engineer at Databricks

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Kasten
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Altos, California

### Member of Technical Staff @ Nutanix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India
Primarily worked on the development of NuCloud - A distributed orchestration engine used for running workloads on Docker Containers running on the Nutanix cluster.

Developed a prototype of the AWS Security Groups feature for the Nutanix cluster during a hackathon which was later incorporated into the product. 

Received the Nutanix Engineering Superhero Award.

### Intern @ Nutanix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore
Developed enterprise-grade web applications using Django

Developed various data visualization components for multiple applications.

### Research Intern @ Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore
Researched on the placement of Virtual Machines to reduce energy costs in data centers where availability is a constraint. Developed the 'Gravity Algorithm' to optimally place Virtual Machines. 

Designed and implemented simulations on CloudSim to calculate the improvement in costs when Gravity algorithm is used for VM placement as opposed to Random placement.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science
PES University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gauthamsunjay

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Last updated: 2026-03-29