Babusrithar M
India Site Lead, Sr Director Of Engineering at Cockroach Labs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolBabusrithar M is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on architect with nearly two decades of product-building experience and a decade in senior engineering roles, currently serving as India Site Lead and Senior Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs. He blends cloud-native backend expertise (Golang, AWS, Terraform) with platform and security features delivery—MFA, SSO, and API frameworks—earned across roles at Clumio, Nutanix, Apty and others. A practical open-source contributor, he added Spot/SpotVM support and preemption-aware testing to CockroachDB’s roachtest framework, showing a knack for production-grade distributed systems work. He excels at scaling engineering organizations and systems simultaneously, from founding an India dev center and building API/notification platforms to leading large management-plane teams. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs rigorous academic training (MS Software Systems, B.Tech IT) with a track record of turning complex cloud and database requirements into reliable, automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceB.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
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Github Skills (14)
gcp10
go10
aws10
devops9
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
kubernetes6
docker6
kubernetes-pods6
dockers6
database5
distributed-database5
databases5
sql4
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Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 19 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Babusrithar implemented features related to cloud instance management, specifically adding support for Spot and SpotVM instances in GCE and AWS environments. This involved modifying configuration files, command-line arguments, and test specifications to accommodate these instance types. Furthermore, the user contributed to the roachtest framework by integrating preemption checks for SpotVMs and added a new option (`--use-spot`) to enable SpotVM usage in tests.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
BabuSrithar/cockroach
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:79 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 3 months
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