Jayant Shrivastava
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJayant Shrivastava is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in systems programming and distributed databases, currently focused on query performance and execution at Datadog. He spent significant time on CockroachDB’s core team, improving changefeed reliability and performance—work that includes an Apache Pulsar sink and Parquet exporter optimizations in a widely used open-source cloud-native SQL database. Comfortable in Go and Rust, he blends low-level performance tuning with robust testing and memory-efficient refactors. He has additional experience in AI infrastructure at Meta and short-term engineering roles across notable companies like Shopify, demonstrating versatility across systems and product contexts. Based in New York and educated at the University of Waterloo, he contributes openly to high-impact projects while favoring pragmatic, measurable improvements to storage and streaming systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Markville Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
parquet10
data-storage10
go10
apache-pulsar10
performance-optimization10
database9
sql-database9
test-automation9
relational-databases9
databases9
distributed-systems8
kafka7
json6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:384 reviews, 131 commits, 298 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jayant primarily worked on the changefeed functionality within the CockroachDB project. Their contributions included implementing features for the Apache Pulsar sink, optimizing the performance of the Parquet exporter, and enhancing the overall robustness of the changefeed system. The user's work demonstrates a focus on improving the performance of the storage system, as evidenced by the refactoring of code for better memory usage and bug fixes related to the reliability of the changefeeds. The user's also made the testing more robust to improve the general correctness of the project.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
jayshrivastava/htn-cockroachdb-workshop-2022
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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