# Himangi S. > Engineering at Databricks | Ex-Palantir and Facebook (Hiring) Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/himangi Backend engineer with deep experience driving improvements in system reliability, configuration frameworks, and service scalability. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and technical leadership across product teams, platform infrastructure, and incident response. Proven ability to design and contribute to high-impact tooling and architecture strategy, while fostering alignment through clear documentation and stakeholder engagement. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer / Manager @ Databricks Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading the Application Lifecycle team at Databricks to develop foundational building blocks and high-level abstractions for feature development for various high-scale AI and ML usecases including Model Serving, Feature Serving, and Vector Search. We tackle complex challenges - from building reliable RPC client-server frameworks, custom proto code generation for streamlining the adoption of Databricks API design standards and providing high-level abstractions to integrate with multi-cloud infrastructure. ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California Currently working on various bets in the Environment management team ranging from auto-restarts for services, host management, RDS management, migrating services to kubernetes etc. Environment management team, Production Infrastructure : Design and maintain distributed daemons and micro-services used to manage hundreds of services, applications, and database systems for dedicated Gotham and Foundry installations running on VMs(in AWS/Azure), on-prem or in Kubernetes. Created services that enable continuous upgrades, service discovery, PKI, config, lifecycle & secret management as well as health status reporting for monitoring/alerting. A small peek on my work can be found here: https://medium.com/palantir/a-sky-full-of-clouds-218b9db3f735. Orchestration team, Foundry platform: Designed and built scalable micro-services for scheduling and running efficient builds of highly-connected data pipelines involving 100s of datasets in Palantir Foundry. Mentored new hires and conducted technical interviews for engineering candidates. Replaced and migrated from a legacy system for quality and performance reasons. ### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | London, England, United Kingdom Worked on the data systems team responsible for developing and maintaining the transaction API used by all applications to persist stateful information thereby abstracting away databases like Cassadra, Oracle or Postgres. Architected and implemented a throttling system to ensure fairness in a multi-tenant environment. ### Teaching Assistant @ IIIT Hyderabad Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Teaching assistant for Mathematics III, Computer Systems Organisation and Computer programming in different semesters. ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, California Ads Delivery Insights team at Facebook HQ: Built ML classification models for advertiser alerts and opportunities including real-time data retrieval pipelines. Launched the model in advertising facing product by designing and implementing additional UI component for advertisers to get an overview of their Return on Ad spend and alerts on how to improve spending using the model. Aditionally, implemented a history view in the Ads Delivery Debugger that helps browse and graphically visualize the various events/actions for any Ad entity and measure impact of the model. ### Outreach Program - GNOME Intern @ The Linux Foundation Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Work from home Project Coccinelle: Help develop coccinelle scripts that can clean errors/warnings across the entire kernel tree ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Worked on the Kindle payments team. Implemented of the feature to share payment instruments between members of a household -- starting from requirements gathering to product launch. ### Full Stack Engineer @ ClapOne Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/himangi774 --- Source: https://flows.cv/himangi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/himangi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12