# Harsh Motwani

> Software Engineer @ Databricks

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/harshmotwani

I made my first app when I was in the 9th grade. It was just a guide for a popular game, but it failed miserably - it just sold a couple dozen copies, and I made a loss of about 70 dollars. While it was sad at the time, it only convinced me that there was a lot that I needed to learn in order to develop high quality software.

Fast forward a few years, and I made it to one of the most selective undergraduate Computer Science programs in the world at IIT Guwahati, excelled at competitive programming, worked on some cool applications, researched in the fields of Bioinformatics, Computer Architecture and Deep Learning, and worked on some awesome projects at Databricks, Microsoft Research and D. E. Shaw.

Currently, I'm finishing up my Computer Science Master's degree at UCSD, and I'm working on a bioinformatics project with Sumit Walia (PhD student) and Prof. Yatish Turakhia. After finishing my Master's, I'm planning to join Databricks full time as a Software Engineer in the Photon team.

My interests lie in Computer Systems and Algorithms, so feel free to discuss these areas with me.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Working on Photon, a vectorized query execution engine written in C++

### Graduate Research Assistant @ UC San Diego
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | La Jolla Shores, California, United States
Turakhia Lab

### Software Engineer Intern @ Databricks
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Worked on Photon, a vectorized query execution engine ⚡️

### Graduate Research Assistant @ UC San Diego
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Diego, California, United States
Turakhia Lab

### Research Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Technical Head @ CSEA, IIT Guwahati
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Guwahati, Assam, India

### Technical Executive @ CSEA, IIT Guwahati
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Guwahati, Assam

### Software Developer Intern @ The D. E. Shaw Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India

### Web Developer @ Students' Web Committee IITG
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Guwahati, Assam


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05