Summary
Hardik Negi is a software engineer in Palo Alto with nine years of experience building and optimizing distributed storage and database systems. He currently works at Google on AlloyDB internals and a Spanner-based layer to power high-quality search and analytics for Google Ads. Prior to Google, he at VMware redesigned transactional metadata stores for vSAN, implemented fault-tolerant transaction systems with write-ahead logging, and contributed to distributed file services, achieving a read amplification reduction of 5-5.5x. Earlier at Lucideus he helped build the AI-powered SAFE security framework, reduced data loss by 85% with robust RESTful queues, and sped up data parsing by 35% while automating security workflows. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a BE in CS from Panjab University, and brings hands-on experience across C++, Go, Python, and cloud-native tooling.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Engineering, Computer Science, 8.26/10 (Honors), Bachelor’s of Engineering, Computer Science, 8.26/10 (Honors) at Panjab University
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.77/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.77/4.0 at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi