# Satva Shah

> SWE @ Databricks | CS & Econ @ UCLA

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present

### Venture Fellow @ General Catalyst
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Invested up to $150k in student founders, powered by General Catalyst.

### Software Engineering Intern, Scholar @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• Improving academic search engine’s precision and recall for lookup queries of a particular paper, enabling launch of upcoming products resulting in lookups doubling from 17% to 33% of all queries
• Added publisher id lookups, achieving win-loss ratios >90% on millions of citations, by writing indexing MapReduces in C++
• Adjusted service-time ranking by creating production workflows for journal parsing, citation scoring, and query normalization

### Software Engineering Intern, YouTube @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Prototyped a new video ingestion service, handling RUSH protocol streams, to support low-latency, high-quality performance on degraded networks and to act as an IETF artifact, shaping future QUIC-based protocols
• Designed a server architecture of 7 co-functioning classes by leveraging multithreading and asynchronous programming in C++
• Developed test infrastructure of mock clients, unit testing suites, and automated monitoring to support easy platform integration

### Software Engineering Intern @ GCI Communication Corp.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Streamlined filing of a federal project generating $60M ARR, by migrating 25 TB from an on-premises database to Azure cloud
• Recorded thousands of miles of multi-media network maps by combining usage of Databricks, Data Factories, and Data Lakes

### Software Engineering Intern @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
• Interned for 4 summers across the R&D Software, DevOps, Business Operations, and Data Science teams
• 2021 - Forecasted headcount and cost of ~3000 employees across 40+ countries by developing algorithms in SQL and Python
• 2020 - Optimized handling of 75%+ of org’s finance and project data by designing an internal, unified data management system
• 2019 - Decreased CI/CD cloud server usage by 7% by adding code check-in, test deduplication using Git hooks and Java
• 2018 - Created a tagging system to power code search for 400+ developers for a new operating system ArubaOS-CX in Python

### Team USA Athlete @ USA Roller Sports, US Olympic Committee
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Top ranked US athlete and multi-time US National Champion 
• Placed 4th at the 2019 World Championships in Spain


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Economics
UCLA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024

### High School Diploma
Whitney High School
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/satvashah
- GitHub: https://github.com/SShah-GH/

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Source: https://flows.cv/satva
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/satva/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22