Anirudh Ramachandra
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnirudh Ramachandra is a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, scalable server systems, currently based in Mountain View and working at Google. He drove low-level architecture and delivery of live and on-demand streaming solutions at Akamai, and brings deep expertise in networking and media protocols (RTMP/HLS/DASH). An active contributor to core gRPC implementations across C, Java, and Go, he has made reliability- and security-focused fixes—like URI/authority handling, handshaker refactors, and credential plugins—that impact widely used RPC infrastructure. His background combines rigorous engineering from top-tier academic programs with hands-on, data-driven testing and monitoring design, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability at scale. Notably, he has experience encoding nuanced authority and handshake behaviors into cross-language systems, a detail that underscores his grasp of distributed systems interoperability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PCM, 97%, PCM, 97% at M.E.S College of Arts,Commerce and ScienceMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, 4.03, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, 4.03 at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, 9.53/10 CGPA, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, 9.53/10 CGPA at RV College of Engineering
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
microservices-application10
xsd10
networking10
java10
javas10
rpc10
go10
golang10
xs10
microservices10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
code-optimization9
proto9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-go
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 3 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anirudh primarily focused on enhancing the gRPC Go implementation. Their contributions include adding features to pass handshake information to custom dialers, allowing the xDS controller to override the grpc.Dial function, and incorporating a plugin system for credentials within the bootstrap process. Further, the user worked on code changes to improve the authority encoding in client connections. This work indicates a deep understanding of gRPC internals and related networking configurations.
golangnanoservicesrpcprotoprotobuf
grpc/grpc
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 11 commits, 27 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Anirudh primarily focused on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the gRPC project. Their contributions included fixing a bug related to URI encoding for Unix sockets, refactoring the TCP connect process into a dedicated handshaker, and ensuring correct URI handling for IPv6 addresses. Furthermore, the user made updates to facilitate passing channel arguments to security connectors and implemented features related to the handshaker's priority during setup.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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