OpenAI recently made headlines with its acquisition of US-based startup Rockset, in a move that has brought to light a prominent Assam connection. The co-founder of Rockset, Dhruba Borthakur, hails from Assam and boasts an impressive background working with major tech companies like Facebook. While the financial details of the acquisition remain undisclosed, industry insiders believe it to be one of the largest deals for OpenAI.
Dhruba Borthakur, son of Dr. Arun Borthakur, a respected professor at Gauhati University, has carved out a successful career for himself, amassing an impressive 69 patents along the way. His contributions include pivotal roles at Facebook, where he was an engineer on the database team involved in developing the RocksDB data store. He also made significant impacts at Yahoo, playing a key role in creating the Hadoop Distributed File System and contributing to the Apache HBase project. With experience at Veritas Software, founding an e-commerce startup, and working on the Andrew File System at IBM-Transarc Labs, Dhruba’s expertise is widely acknowledged in the tech industry.
