FOUNDING ENGINEER / HOTDATA

Shefeek Jinnah

Building data
systems at scale.

I build high-performance data infrastructure at HotData. 18 years of engineering experience, from distributed systems and cloud platforms to the foundations of modern analytics.

Shefeek Jinnah by a lake near Mount Fuji
Shefeek JinnahFounding Engineer, HotDataBengaluru, India
18 yearsEngineering experience
From first principles
to production.

Current chapter

Building the foundations
at HotData.

From core database architecture to the production systems around it.

As a founding engineer, I work across the stack to build high-performance data infrastructure and analytics systems from the ground up.

01

Database infrastructure

Storage and execution layers designed for analytical workloads and millions of databases.

02

Performance at scale

Query optimization and systems engineering that connect architectural decisions to real workload performance.

03

Production engineering

Cloud-native infrastructure that takes the database from development into dependable operation.

RustApache DataFusionDuckDBKubernetes
About

Where databases, distributed systems and AI meet.

I'm a Founding Engineer at HotData, building high-performance data infrastructure and analytics systems from the ground up. I work across the stack — from architecture and core database infrastructure to performance engineering and production systems.

Much of my work is about pushing the limits of analytical systems: scaling to millions of databases, optimizing large-scale query workloads, and building fast, efficient storage and execution layers.

Toolbox
Rust Go Apache DataFusion DuckDB Kubernetes Distributed systems Query engines Cloud-native Performance engineering Java React

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