Ganesh Varma
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolGanesh Varma is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating scalable data platforms and observability tooling, currently at DigitalOcean after founding roles at early-stage startups. He has deep backend expertise in Go and distributed systems, contributing to open-source projects like Rudder Server with improvements for MinIO support, concurrency fixes, and warehouse partitioning. At RudderStack he shipped deployment automation, reverse ETL primitives, warehouse integrations (Postgres, ClickHouse), bespoke reverse proxies, and end-to-end monitoring and profiling solutions. He pairs strong on-call and SRE instincts with product-facing API and UI work—having built notification and alert management systems used to monitor data pipelines. A BITS Pilani Hyderabad alumnus, Ganesh blends startup grit and engineering leadership, often stepping into DevOps and mentoring responsibilities beyond his core role. He’s comfortable moving between hands-on code, infra automation, and launching features that bridge control and data planes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at BITS Pilani hyderabadMPC, MPC at chaitanya junior kalasala
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Github Skills (9)
concurrent-programming10
go10
concurrent10
concurrency10
clickhouse9
postgresql8
database-management7
python6
django6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rudderlabs/rudder-server
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 73 commits, 137 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ganesh primarily contributed to enhancing the Rudder Server's functionality, focusing on areas such as MinIO support for table dumps and destinations. The user addressed a concurrency issue within the StatsD map by adding a lock to prevent race conditions. The user also made code changes related to the warehouse functionality, including support for partition and exclude windows.
rudderwarehouse-managementcustomer-datadata-warehousehybrid-cloud
gane5hvarma/monitor
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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