Summary
Hardik Negi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience building high-performance storage, database, and I/O path systems for cloud and enterprise workloads. He currently contributes to AlloyDB at Google, driving low-latency, scalable storage and transaction-engine features for OLTP, analytics, and agentic AI workloads. Previously at VMware he re-architected transactional metadata stores and implemented Copy-on-Write B+ tree and log-structured filesystem innovations that cut read amplification and CPU overhead significantly. His hands-on expertise spans C/C++, Linux kernel and database internals, with practical experience in distributed filesystems, WAL recovery, and concurrency control. Beyond core systems work he has delivered production cloud services and automation tooling, reflecting a blend of deep systems engineering and pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who seeks elegant, measurable performance gains while exploring novel problems across storage and database stacks.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Engineering, Computer Science, 8.26/10 (Honors), Bachelor’s of Engineering, Computer Science, 8.26/10 (Honors) at Panjab University
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.77/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.77/4.0 at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi