Arindam Nayak
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolArindam Nayak is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure, currently at NVIDIA after a senior engineering tenure at VMware. He brings deep expertise in Golang, Java, MySQL and distributed system patterns, having architected microservices, DBaaS tooling and migration utilities across fintech and platform products. At Talentica he drove major performance improvements (8x) and led migrations from Python to Go, CI/CD automation and k8s/operator work that improved test reliability and onboarding. He contributes to notable open-source projects like Vitess—helping with backend clustering scripts, etcd tooling and CI health checks—reflecting a practical focus on MySQL horizontal scaling. Based in Pune and NIT Rourkela-trained, he combines hands-on coding with system design and a knack for translating operational needs into automated, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Degree Computer Science Engineering; NIT Rourkela, B.Tech Degree Computer Science Engineering; NIT Rourkela at Examination Institute/School University/Board ScoreB.Tech CSE, B.Tech CSE at National Institute of Technology RourkelaBSE, BSE at Govt. Boys' High School Bhubaneswar12th Science, 12th Science at BJB College
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Github Skills (23)
go10
database-management10
mysql9
javascript9
ajax9
webservice9
devops9
wcf9
asp-net9
vbnet9
database-cluster8
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
etcd7
automation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:112 commits, 25 PRs, 38 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Arindam's commits primarily revolve around contributing to the backend infrastructure of Vitess, a database clustering system. They introduced a cluster setup using Go processes and added the `etcdctl` tool to the build process. Furthermore, the user contributed to migration scripts and updated the health checks for the vtgate and vtctld components. This work suggests contributions spanning system setup, database management, and potentially CI/CD.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
arindamnayak/vitess
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Contributions:1 release, 30 PRs, 130 pushes in 9 months
mysqlhorizontal-scalingsqlvitessclustering
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