Harihara Kadayam
Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHarihara Kadayam is a Principal Staff Engineer with over 25 years of deep expertise designing high-performance storage systems, databases, and distributed transaction protocols for large-scale platforms. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at eBay and a technical lead at Google and LinkedIn, he has built geo-distributed stores, flash-optimized engines, and end-to-end storage services from the ground up. He is the founding author of the open-source HomeStore engine, the creator of several C++ libraries for core data structures, and holds 16 patents in storage and database technologies. Known for marrying strategic architecture with hands-on implementation, Harihara leverages emerging hardware—RDMA, persistent memory—and container orchestration to push storage performance and reliability. His background combines product-minded engineering with entrepreneurship training from Stanford, reflecting a rare blend of system-level depth and practical innovation.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate, Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at University of Madras
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Github Skills (32)
fst10
storage-engine10
client-library10
networked10
key-value10
storage10
data-structures-c10
facebook10
php10
golang10
data-structures10
c-library10
cpp10
high-performance10
csharp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hkadayam/sisl
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
High Performance C++ data structures and utilities
Contributions:6 PRs, 55 pushes, 96 branches in 2 years 9 months
cppc-plus-plusperformancedata-structureshigh-performance
eBay/IOManager
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
IOManager tries to bridge the gap in existing async framework to build full async networked database/storage/keyvalue storage
Contributions:12 reviews, 251 commits, 24 PRs in 3 years 10 months
networkedbridgedatabasedatabase-storagestorage
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