Summary
Dhruva Krishnamurthy is a Principal Engineer based in California with nearly two decades of experience designing high-performance, reliable storage and file-system architectures. At Atlassian he drives Bitbucket’s storage strategy to support large monorepos and mentors engineers on technical career growth. His background includes measurable system-level wins—at NetApp he led NFSv4 optimizations that halved throughput issues and cut IO latency by ~40%, and at McAfee he engineered a custom memory allocator to boost scan throughput by ~25%. Early career roles span embedded and simulation software, cross-platform C++ systems, and navigation data tooling, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and large-scale service architecture. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, performance-first designs that improve operational resiliency. He pairs deep technical craft with a history of leading cross-team initiatives and delivering production impact.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical at University of Mysore
c, c++, python, go, java