Balachandar Namasivayam
Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalachandar Namasivayam is a software engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, storage, and databases from the kernel up. Based in San Jose, he currently contributes to FoundationDB at Apple, adding client-side transaction profiling, improved error handling, and richer diagnostics to a widely used open-source transactional key-value store. His background spans low-level C/C++ performance tuning for messaging and WebKit on mobile chipsets, to Python and Perl integrations for storage orchestration, reflecting a rare mix of embedded, systems, and cloud-facing expertise. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and has repeatedly focused on identifying and removing bottlenecks—whether in real-time embedded controllers or large-scale distributed commits—bringing pragmatic diagnostics and measurable performance wins.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBE, Electronics & Communication Engineering, BE, Electronics & Communication Engineering at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (14)
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transaction10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
key-value-store10
transaction-manager10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database-design10
acid10
performance-optimization9
logging9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 releases, 23 reviews, 272 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Balachandar made substantial contributions to the FoundationDB project, a distributed key-value store. Their work involved significant changes to the client and server-side code, specifically adding features for client-side transaction profiling and enhancing error handling. The user also modified code related to commit operations and improved code that interacts with databases. Additionally, the user added enhancements related to logging and diagnostic information.
bigtabletransactionaldistributed-databasefoundationdbdatabase
bnamasivayam/fdb-kubernetes-operator
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
A kubernetes operator for FoundationDB
Contributions:22 pushes, 12 branches, 5 tags in 3 years
kubernetes-operatorkubernetesfoundationdboperator
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