Arpit Bhayani

I am a CS engineer passionate about building systems that scale and currently working with Google as a Staff Software Engineer with the Dataproc team and making Apache Spark faster. Throughout my career, I have worked across a variety of domains and have built systems, services, and platforms at companies like Unacademy, Amazon, Practo, and D. E. Shaw. I hold a Master's in CS from IIIT-Hyderabad, specializing in Databases, Information Retrieval, and Web Mining. I teach a cohort-based course on System Design and have taught 1000+ engineers. On the side, I am - building a tiny in-mem database DiceDB - running a YouTube channel with 20k subscribers - publishing a newsletter with 21k readers - putting out one-liners through The Smarter Chimp - reading and implementing a bunch of research papers - https://arpitbhayani.me/papershelf - reading a few engineering books every now and then - https://arpitbhayani.me/bookshelf