Harikrishnan Rajan is a seasoned backend engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems for cloud and e-commerce platforms. He currently contributes to AlloyDB at Google, bringing deep relational database expertise combined with prior work on CosmosDB at Microsoft and supply-chain-critical services at Flipkart. His track record includes designing active-active multi-DC architectures, custom off-heap caching that reclaimed significant heap memory, and materialized-view failover, backup, and restore logic for a planet-scale NoSQL service. Harikrishnan pairs production-first engineering with a history of end-to-end delivery—from solutioning and load testing to live support—and has roots in open source work on K-9 Mail that improved IMAP sync efficiency. Based in Bengaluru, he blends cloud-native database performance optimizations with pragmatic reliability engineering for business-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
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