Dhruv Goel
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruv Goel is a Staff Software Engineer in the Bay Area with 14 years of experience designing scalable database and distributed systems, currently driving engineering at Databricks after senior roles at AWS. He blends deep systems expertise—database internals, search and indexing—and full‑stack development, with notable open-source contributions to phpBB and react-big-calendar that improved search index performance and UX for drag-and-drop/multi-day events. A former co-founder, he pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on algorithm and performance optimization skills honed across large-scale services at Amazon/A9 and cloud database services at AWS. Dhruv’s background includes multiple Google Summer of Code projects, reflecting a longstanding commitment to open-source collaboration and shipping robust testable systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
W21, W21 at Y CombinatorB.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)
Github Skills (14)
component-development10
drag-and-drop10
php10
javascript10
mysql10
react10
database-optimization9
develop9
user-interface9
git-repository8
code-optimization8
git8
testing8
github8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Mar 2012 - Apr 2015
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:555 commits, 12 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dhruv primarily worked on improving the phpBB backend code, specifically by addressing performance and functionality issues related to the search index. Their commits focused on optimizing the speed of search index creation, fixing typos, adding conditions for directory existence, and updating language keys. The contributions reflect efforts to enhance the forum software's core functionality and improve user experience.
phpphpbbforumbulletin-board
bigcalendar/react-big-calendar
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
gcal/outlook like calendar component
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dhruv primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of the calendar component. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to drag-and-drop functionality and multi-day events. They implemented new features such as disabling auto-scroll and exposing components for customization. They also made changes to allow for className object usage within the component.
gcal
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