# Gopal Holla

> Staff Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gopalholla

Software engineer with expertise and experience building and operating storage systems, query engines, privacy/governance frameworks and platforms as both an individual contributor and a technical lead accountable for system architecture, technical alignment, product delivery, development processes and team dynamics.

Learning about and building scalable, maintainable and extensible systems or platforms geared towards solving real business problems with an engaged team is my primary driver. I also invest time in improving my skills in team building, mentorship and in streamlining software engineering processes for effective collaboration and execution.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Building unified governance for all data and AI assets.

I build the platform and storage components that powers the Unity Catalog platform.

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale
Building a platform that makes it easier to access LinkedIn's Economic Graph with privacy compliance as a first class feature.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
Engineer in the Distributed Data Systems group working on Ambry (https://github.com/linkedin/ambry).

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
Engineer in the Distributed Data Systems group working on Ambry.

### Engineering Intern @ Maginatics, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Design and build a multi-platform performance-benchmarking framework to benchmark the cost of metadata operations on different file systems. In addition, profile the performance of such operations at scale.

### Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Improve game performance through optimizations. Develop game features end to end including design, implementation, release and post production support.

### Associate Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Improve game performance through optimizations. Develop game features end to end including design, implementation, release and post production support.

### Research Intern @ University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked on virtualizing a security network in order to enable easier manipulation and testing of network design and behaviour

### Engineering Intern @ India Innovation Labs
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Implemented stereo vision and depth calculation using Intel OpenCV libraries.


## Education
### Master of Computer Science in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering
National Institute of Technology Karnataka


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12