# Rahul Mahadev

> Senior Software Engineer at Databricks

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rahulmahadev

Distributed Systems | Databases

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
2019 - 2023
- On the founding team that built Delta Lake
- Built several core features like OPTIMIZE, Describe History, Change Data Feed
- Founding engineer for Liquid Clustering

2024-Present
- Team Lead for the data layout team (Own OPTIMIZE, ZORDER, Liquid Clustering), building the state of the art data layout that brings the best performance for data workloads.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Decentralized Systems Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Worked on HoneybadgerMPC
- Scalable, Robust Asynchronous Multi-Party Computation framework
- Helped scaling the system to 200 geo replicated EC-2 nodes
- Published in 2019 ACM CCS

Cloaking Fabric
- Master's thesis
- Confidentiality layer for Hyperledger Fabric blockchain.
- Built using HoneybadgerMPC as a system chaincode.
- Wrote decentralized analytics applications to demonstrate the system.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Graduate teaching assistant for the course on discrete structures (CS 173) 
Graduate teaching assistant for the course on Introduction to Computer Science(CS125)
Graduate teaching assistant for the course on Distributed Systems(CS425)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cloudera
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on Apache Impala

Implemented Distributed Runtime Filtering Aggregation, changed the way runtime filters are aggregated in Impala, moved from single point aggregation to a distributed approach saw 200% improvement in memory consumption and 5% improvement in query performance.

Won best intern project 2018

### Software Engineer @ Citrix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked with the HDX team of XenDesktop where I worked on virtual device drivers and device redirection in Windows.

Was also a part of the Android Receiver team where I worked on essential components of the Android Receiver.

### Student Developer at lowRISC @ Google Summer of Code
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Built a standalone Trusted Execution Environment on top of seL4 microkernel which models OPTEE in terms of functionality. Ported the implementation to ARM and RISC-V platforms.

For more info: http://hybridNeo.github.io/gsoc2016.html

### Visiting Researcher @ Dalhousie University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
I was entrusted in building an application which could benchmark the performance of various data warehousing tools as well us serve a purpose to the oceanography community.

### Student Developer - TYPO3 @ Google Summer of Code
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bangalore Area, India
Built a social media connector for TYPO3 Neos.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
PES University

### Bishop Cotton Boys'​ School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rahul-mahadev-81ab216a
- Website: http://www.rahulmahadev.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05