# Onkur Sen

> Software Engineer at Thatch

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

Backend and infrastructure/devops engineer familiar with Python/Django, Golang, Bash, Postgres, and AWS. Passionate about leading teams valuing first-principles thinking, high transparency, and strong communication.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Thatch
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Working on the member experience team focused on improving member balances!

### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Engineer on logging platform

### Staff Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
• Tech lead of Cash, responsible for the Cash Card and Robinhood Money (RHY)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
• Led engineering incident response for 2 of the company’s biggest outages
• Built tool automating first-time local setup, saving 2 hours/person as engineering grew from 100-500
• Owned, operated, and documented Airflow for online business-critical workflows and pipelines
• Created and automated release process and canary analysis, paving the way for continuous deployment, reducing engineering time and increasing safety of code changes

### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
• Productionized all 8 internal services for Robinhood’s in-house self-clearing system, the first in >40 years
• Led cross-team group of 7 engineers to service infrastructure and reliability needs for 3 backend teams

### Software Engineer Intern @ Accompany
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Built end-to-end news feed ingestion pipeline cross-referencing keywords with search results from Bing and feeds from Feedly

### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Worked on the Philanthropy team, partnering with non-profits and NGOs.

• Used cryptographic hashing to improve security of credential store for Global Terrorism Database project
• Migrated instance for National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to Palantir as system of record

### Forward Deployed Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
• Integrated location data from homes in Oklahoma City hit by tornado to enable same-day disaster relief

### Software Engineering Intern @ Plum District
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### KPCB Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Software Engineering Intern @ TripAdvisor
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Newton, MA
• Engineered solution for cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the highly trafficked (250,000 monthly active users) Facebook application Cities I’ve Visited
• Improved relevance of display of Facebook likes, ratings, and recommendations
• Implemented JavaScript compatibility for display of textual content on website


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelors of Science in Mathematics, Physics
Rice University

### Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/onkursen
- Website: http://www.onkursen.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05