Janak Ramakrishnan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJanak Ramakrishnan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of production engineering experience and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. He spent nine years on Google’s Build Team working deeply on Blaze/Bazel internals—contributing to a flagship open-source build system—and two years building speech infrastructure before moving to DeepMind to focus on Gemini post-training and trainer developer experience. Janak blends rigorous academic foundations in mathematics with practical expertise in large-scale developer tooling, debugging complex test failures, and evolving build and execution workflows. Known for diving into core backend problems, he brings a rare combination of research-grade analytical thinking and hands-on systems engineering at Google-scale.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyA.B. Mathematics, A.B. Mathematics at Harvard University
French, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
error-handling10
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
java9
testing9
javas9
cin8
continuous-integration8
cypress6
javascript6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 reviews, 1310 commits, 15 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Janak contributed to Bazel's build system by implementing and refining core components, with a focus on core functionality. Their work included debugging and resolving test failures, adding new functionalities to the code base, and making contributions to the build process and related infrastructure. The code changes indicate a deep understanding of Bazel's internals, including action execution, dependency management, and compilation workflows. They also added a flag and implemented a change to use a test tool for various aspects.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
janakdr/bazel
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
Correct, reproducible, and fast builds for everyone.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
correctbazelbuildsreproduciblebazel-rules
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