Govind Menon
Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGovind Menon is a software engineer with 12 years’ experience building large-scale, backend systems and distributed infrastructure, currently contributing at Cloudflare and serving on the Apache Storm PMC. He has a strong track record at major tech companies including Facebook and Yahoo, where he implemented capacity management, automated large-scale deployments, NUMA support, and resource-aware scheduling for high-throughput streaming pipelines. An active open-source contributor, Govind has made substantive server-side improvements to flagship Apache projects such as BookKeeper (journal handling, manual GC, ledger verification) and Storm (scheduling, serialization fixes, UI and Thrift updates). He combines academic training (MS in Computer Science) with hands-on expertise in storage, fault tolerance, and performance tuning, and brings a pragmatic focus on data integrity and operational robustness that often shows up as behind-the-scenes improvements to reliability.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Certificate, Science, Higher Secondary Certificate, Science at Fergusson CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
apache-storm10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
distributed-systems10
apache10
twitter-api10
java10
apache-bookkeeper10
data-storage10
javas10
rest-api10
thrift10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/storm
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Apache Storm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 58 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Govind primarily contributed to the Apache Storm project by adding features and resolving issues in the backend. This includes implementing logic to allow the topology to query if blobs have changed. The user also addressed serialization errors and implemented changes related to Generic Resource Aware Scheduling, adding and modifying several generated Thrift files. Furthermore, they fixed bugs related to UI and also made several checkstyle fixes.
apachebig-datastormjavaapache-storm
apache/bookkeeper
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Apache BookKeeper - a scalable, fault tolerant and low latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 24 PRs, 32 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Govind primarily contributed to the Apache BookKeeper project by implementing and modifying core server-side functionalities. Their work included enhancing journal handling with multiple journals, enabling manual garbage collection, and allowing clients to select older protocol versions. Furthermore, the user integrated distributed random verification of ledger fragments, enhancing the system's data integrity checks. These changes show a focus on improving data storage, retrieval, and system robustness.
fault-tolerantapache-bookkeeperbookkeeperfaultstorage
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