Rahul Mahadev is a Senior Software Engineer at Databricks, where they contribute to building Delta Lake and are currently developing next-generation clustering using Liquid Clustering. Rahul has previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and held roles at Cloudera, Google Summer of Code, and Citrix, focusing on distributed systems and analytics. They earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from PES University.