# Naga Raju Bhanoori

> Staff Software Engineer at Databricks

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

I am a Software Engineer at Databricks working on Predictive Optimization

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- SIGMOD 2022: Amazon Redshift re-invented.
- Tech lead actively working on Data Sharing & Metadata Elasticity efforts.
- Tech lead driving Table Elasticity efforts, responsible for increasing the table limits up to 100k.
- Delivered Concurrency scaling in Redshift. This allows customers to add additional cluster capacity automatically to support virtually unlimited concurrent users and concurrent queries, with consistently fast query performance.

### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Worked on supporting incremental backup of metadata for Redshift database. Responsible for Design, Implementation and efficient deployment of this data sensitive feature. Helped improve backup times by 40%. Worked closely with other teams to facilitate efficient garbage collection.
- Owner of vacuuming system catalog tables. Led numerous improvements and guided junior engineers to make the process smarter leading to 50% improvement in vacuum times.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Design and Implementation of a new SQL command, Alter Default Privileges -- Postgres 9.x feature for Redshift.
- Design and Implementation of binary catalog import enabling efficient schema transfer between different Redshift clusters. Avoids the painful process of exporting and importing SQL between databases.

### Course Grader @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
CSCI 351: Programming & Multimedia on the World Wide Web
CSCI 585: Database Systems

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, California
- Implemented NVL2, LISTAGG – core SQL functions for Amazon Redshift. Bridged the gap between Oracle and Redshift so that users can port easily without large SQL modification.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
o   Implemented the workflow to create, configure and maintain BizTalk service instances on Azure management portal.
           • Technologies used: HTML, CSS, Java script, jQuery 
o Worked on developing a Provisioning service that creates and configures Azure BizTalk cloud service.
o  Developed  "Notifications" Windows Phone 8 app which alerts managers about pending requests related to expenses, vacation periods etc.,  using XAML, HTML5, C#  
o  Developed and maintained a procurement application which is used by over 5000 employees at Microsoft.
          • Technologies used: ASP.NET, WCF, C#, SharePoint

### Software Developer Intern @ INSEAD
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Singapore
-  Designed and developed a Tool to automate Asset and Purchase Management of the School using ColdFusion and Oracle.
-  Interacted with the business partners to understand the requirements and delivered the tool
in time. 
- Implemented intuitive interface, work flow, and Windows desktop gadget for live tracking of purchases and assets. 
           • Technologies used: ColdFusion 9, Oracle, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

### Summer Intern @ Wipro Infotech
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Mysore, Karnataka, India
o	Developed a Search Engine and an interactive Dashboard to display and query data using PHP and MySQL.
o	Features help the employee monitor pending calls very easily according to severity.


## Education
### Masters in Science in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12