# Sergiu Pocol

> Software Engineer @ Databricks

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer IV @ Databricks
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Databricks
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
⚡️ Photon ⚡️

### Software Engineering Intern @ Snowflake
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
❄️ Workload Optimization ❄️

### Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Adaptive Distributed Systems

### Math and Modelling Team Member @ Waterloo iGEM
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Systems Software Engineering Intern @ Micro Focus | Vertica
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
⚙️ Execution Engine ⚙️

### Researcher and Developer, HDL @ SAP
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
🤖 Materialized View Recommender🤖

### Researcher and Developer, Query Processing @ SAP
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
🧠 Query Optimization 🧠

### Software Team Member @ Waterloop
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineering Intern @ Aterica Digital Health
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Waterloo, ON

### Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Under a President's Scholarship of Distinction, I am working with Dr. Audrey Béliveau (Faculty of Mathematics) on assessing random baseline effects in the network meta analysis of disconnected networks.
- Made use of ggpubr and other R packages to produce heatmaps and assess different Bayesian models (made with JAGS software)
- Produced Quantile-Quantile plots and used the Shapiro Will test to confirm validity of normality      assumptions
- Assisted in introducing follow-up time from a medical study into JAGS models

### Math Tutor @ Kumon North America, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kitchener, Canada Area
- Explained mathematical concepts to students and addressed frustration with the content
- Communicated to instructor regarding student progress
- Collaborated with co-workers to optimally file records and manage students

### Gene Researcher for a Week @ Uniacke Lab - University of Guelph
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
- Collaborated with research team to accomplish experimental tasks such as slide preparation                                          
- Learned lab about lab procedures (PCR, Western blotting) and biochemical principles


## Education
### Bachelor of Computer Science in Computer Science
University of Waterloo

### Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students (IQC)

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
International Baccalaureate


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05