Today’s Top Talent Pools

Databricks is reportedly considering a new funding round that could value the data + AI lakehouse platform at $165–175 billion, per The Information. The company's annualized revenue run rate exceeded $5.4B (up 65% YoY) as of its last $5B raise at $134B in February.

  1. Markus De Shon and Julian Shalaby in SF (CEO & Co-Founder @ Perj Security)

    1. Role: Director of Detection Engineering & SWE @ Databricks (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr Security Eng @ Netflix, Sr Security Eng @ Google, Founder & Principal Threat Scientist @ E8 Security ($24M raised —> acq by VMware), Chief Scientist @ SecureWorks, Georgia Tech PhD Nuclear Physics

    3. Description: "Robust persistence detection for the cloud"

  2. Jason Kim in SF (Founder & CTO @ Verve Market)

    1. Role: Sr SWE @ Databricks (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Snackpass ($95M from A16Z, GC, Craft, YC), SWE @ Thumbtack, Yale BS CS

    3. Description: "Shop thousands of products from local grocery stores, matched to the way you eat"

  3. Max Allen in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE & Founding Fraud Team Eng @ Ramp, SWE @ Neeva, SWE Intern @ Airbnb, Contrary VP, MIT BS CS

    3. Description: Stealth since 10/25

  4. Paul Ogilvie in Scranton (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Eng Director & Founded ML Platform Teams @ Databricks (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr EM @ LinkedIn, CMU PhD

    3. Description: "Making Machine Learning Easy"

  5. Aaron Gokaslan in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Research Scientist Intern @ Databricks/MosaicML (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Creator of OpenWebText, AI Resident @ Facebook AI, Cornell PhD CS

    3. Description: Left Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence on 2/26

    4. Contact: Twitter, GitHub

  6. Gavin Kliger in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr SWE @ Databricks (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Chief Data Officer @ US Dept of War, SWE @ Twitter, Accel Scholar, Researcher @ Berkeley, UC Berkeley BS EECS

    3. Description: Left DOW on 4/26

  7. Quinn Leng in SF (Co-Founder @ Kylon)

    1. Role: Sr Research Engineer @ Databricks Mosaic Research (8 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ Keplogic (bioinformatics agents), Sr SWE @ Databricks, CMU MS CS

    3. Description: "Agents collaboration space for businesses"

    4. Funding: PearX S25

  8. Jon Saad-Falcon in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: ML Research @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Research Assistant @ Stanford SAIL, D.E. Shaw Nexus Fellow

    3. Description: Current Stanford PhD CS + MBA

    4. Contact: Site, Twitter, [email protected]

  9. Dave Eyler in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Good Timing)

    1. Role: Director of Product Management @ Databricks (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: VP Product Management @ SingleStore, Sr Director PM @ ThoughtSpot

    3. Description: "Baton: agent-to-agent support infrastructure for companies shipping agent-facing products"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  10. Joshua Hartman in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director of Engineering @ Databricks (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Engineering @ LinkedIn

    3. Description: Career Break 3/25

  11. Mani Parkhe in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Sr Staff SWE & Founding MLflow Team @ Databricks (8 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sr SWE @ Uber, Sr SWE @ LinkedIn

    3. Description: "Taking a break"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  12. Aakash Japi and Rahul Govind in SF (Co-Founders @ Tachyon)

    1. Role: Sr SWEs @ Databricks (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Google, SWE @ Snap, UC Berkeley BS EECS

    3. Description: "An intelligent code security suite that uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in your codebase"

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  13. Ashish Selvaraj in SF (Founder @ Approxima)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Microsoft, UWaterloo BS CS

    3. Description: "Self-healing software. When everyone sells shovels, sometimes it's better to pan for gold."

    4. Funding: YC W26

  14. Aryaman Khanna in SF (Co-Founder @ Arden)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: UC Berkeley BS CS

    3. Description: "Arden is the AI-native platform for internal audit and SOX teams."

    4. Funding: YC P26

  15. Dhruv Yadav in SF (Founder @ NoClick)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Meta, Researcher @ Stanford

    3. Description: "NoClick is the first full-stack collaborative AI automation platform. We help people build/design interfaces and automations in one infinite multiplayer canvas."

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  16. Meng Tong in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ ZettaBlock, SWE @ Observe, SWE @ AWS

    3. Description: Stealth since 2025

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  17. George Pantazis in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Databricks (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Thumbtack

    3. Description: "Working on code that makes it easier to code."

  18. Liwen S. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (7.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SWE Intern @ Facebook, Visiting Scholar @ Max Planck Institute, UC Berkeley PhD CS

    3. Description: Left Databricks 7/25

  19. Tomas Nykodym in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (7 yrs)

    2. Description: "Exploring a personal project."

    3. Contact: [email protected]

  20. Jiho L. in US (Founder @ Hedge)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: SWE @ Passu, Founding Engineer @ Vulcan Technologies ($11M seed from General Catalyst, YC, SV Angel), Options Trader @ Akuna Capital, Signals Eng @ Aquatic Capital, SWE @ Facebook, SWE @ AWS, Harvard CS

    3. Description: Founded Hedge 6/26

  21. Nithin Krishnamurthi in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: SWE @ Databricks (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Staff SWE @ Snorkel AI (ML Foundations), SWE @ Microsoft (Azure Data), ML Intern @ Qualcomm, UC Berkeley BS EECS

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/26

    4. Contact: [email protected]

  22. Tim Bradlee in Portland (Stealth)

    1. Role: VP & GM, Games @ Databricks (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Sales Leader Gaming @ AWS (8 yrs), Regional Sales Director @ Nutanix

    3. Description: Stealth since 4/26

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