See more -> lohpaul.me Ingestion @ Mooncake, Delta Lake and ETL @ Databricks, and recommendation systems @ Shoreline / Nvidia. Research - Involved in AI-native data systems and multimodal model labs at UPenn.

Experience

Mooncake LabsFounding Eng

2025 — Now

Coming soon! Real-time ingestion to iceberg // 1000x faster analytics in postgres

South Park CommonsTinkering

2025 — Now

University of Pennsylvania EngineeringResearcher

2023 — 2025

Scaling LLM-powered analytics on big data systems with Dr Ryan Marcus (ScaleLLM demo @ SIGMOD 2025)

Agentic tooling / data discovery with Dr. Zachary Ives (current)

Microservice overload control frameworks with Dr. Benjamin Lee (Rajomon Paper @ NSDI 2025)

DatabricksSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

Mountain View, California, United States

Optimized out-of-order data pipelines by creating new APIs in the underlying Delta Lake, reducing latency by >500% for garbage collection jobs

Initiated the first ever intern tech talks events, with more than 150 attendees and speakers from multiple teams across all the talks

Delta Live Tables Team (basically managed ETL)

Penn SparkPresident

2021 — 2024

Revamped club membership and increased # of deployed projects by 4x, focus on improving club commitment and culture (great people --> great club)

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Computer Science + Robotics

Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

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Education

Computer Science + Robotics

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Experience