# Khushboo Bhatia

> Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake

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

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Architect for Snowflake’s semantic layer for agentic and BI workloads.
In addition, driving an open standard for interoperable enterprise semantic metadata (OSI)

### Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Lead for Snowpark, building Snowflake’s Python/Java data engineering platform from 0→1 .
Led core system design and execution across Spark DataFrame APIs, query planning/optimization, distributed UDF execution, sandbox/runtime performance, and resource management for large-scale and interactive workloads.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
High Concurrency Spark Clusters

### Maternity break @ Home
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
I took a longer maternity break.

### Research Programmer @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Software Architect for OpenChirp – an open source IoT software stack (https://openchirp.io).
- Designed and implemented the following: 
     1.  The core framework that handles all metadata registration and pub-sub integration. 
     2.  Service API to enable application-level integration for OpenChirp.
     3.  Security layer with support for device/service authentication tokens and access control across REST and MQTT.
     4. Service that handles storage of transducer data in a timeseries database.

### Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
• Lead developer of a generic service provisioning framework that was used to onboard 50+ Oracle products onto Oracle Public Cloud.
• APIs for service provisioning and associations.
• Algorithms for resource allocation, tagging.
• Built command line tools for pod migration, service upgrades.

### Member of Technical Staff @ Oracle
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
- As a software engineer in the  Enterprise Email team, I focussed on identifying bottlenecks and improving performance of the product.
- Led the parallelization of data loading within the application resulting in a 50% reduction in login time.

### Research Assistant @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
I designed an algorithm for a multi-writer regular register that is tolerant to Byzantine failures that led to the publication:
Byzantine-fault-tolerant implementation of a multi-writer regular register. K Kanjani, H Lee, JL Welch. IPDPS 2009


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

### MS in Computer Science
Texas A&M University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/khushbookanjani
- Portfolio: http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/khush/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12