Aditya Maru
Co-Founder at Blacksmith
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAditya Maru is a software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and databases, now co-founding Blacksmith (YC W24) to speed up GitHub Actions. He spent four years at Cockroach Labs contributing to core database functionality and performance improvements in the widely used CockroachDB, focusing on restoration, descriptor management, and ingestion logging. Prior internships at Google and TunnelBear sharpened his expertise in large-scale storage systems, search indexing, and reliable networking on iOS. Based in Boston and trained at Waterloo and Y Combinator, he pairs disciplined execution with a curiosity for low-level performance tuning and developer tooling. Outside of work he’s a sports and hip-hop enthusiast, a hint of the competitive drive that fuels his engineering and startup work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorHigh School, Science, High School, Science at The Shri Ram SchoolBachelor of Honours Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Honours Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (9)
performance-tuning10
database-management10
distributed-systems10
go10
sql10
database-design10
sstable9
testing9
debugging9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1909 reviews, 799 commits, 1051 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aditya primarily contributed to the core functionality and database management aspects of CockroachDB. They focused on bug fixes and improvements related to database and schema restoration, specifically addressing issues with database descriptor management, and implemented code that fixed incorrect calculations in the performance metrics. They also removed redundant code and added code to improve logging during data ingestion. The contributions also included performance improvements, indicating a focus on database optimization.
cloud-nativecockroachdbhigh-availabilitysql-databasego
useblacksmith/setup-dotnet
Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of the .NET core sdk
Contributions:1 release, 10 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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