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Saurav Tiwari

Observer · DISC type ci
Director Of Engineering at Databricks
📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Saurav leads the Service and Systems Infrastructure group at Databricks, responsible for the cross-cloud platform powering all Data and AI products. A former Google engineer, he grew his team from 10 to over 120. He is a Gold Medalist from the National Institute of Technology Warangal.

Saurav is passionate about mentorship, often reflecting on his own career when meeting new graduates joining his team. He holds a special connection to Bangalore, where he was instrumental in bootstrapping foundational infrastructure teams and takes great pride in their progress and impact.

Interesting fact: Saurav was recognized as one of the top programmers of his batch and received the Best Student Award by TCS across all South Indian Universities.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Director Of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Saurav shows up

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Value Driven
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation.

Priorities

Topics Saurav cares about

Foundational Infrastructure
Leads the team building the core infrastructure that powers Databricks' products and has written about creating foundational primitives to support scalable, stateful systems.
Scaling Engineering Teams
He successfully scaled his organization at Databricks from 10 to over 120 engineers across the US and India and frequently posts about hiring and team growth.
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Career

Work history

7-2022
Director Of Engineering
Databricks
10-2021 - 7-2022
Senior Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager
Databricks
10-2019 - 10-2021
Senior Staff Software Engineer / Senior Engineering Manager
Google
10-2016 - 10-2019
Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager
Google
10-2014 - 10-2016
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
Google
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Media appearances

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Education
2007 - 2011
Bachelor of Technology (BTech)
National Institute of Technology Warangal
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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