Summary
Madhava Krishnan is a systems software engineer with 9 years of experience focusing on low-level design, indexing, and concurrency, currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and spent five years there as a graduate research assistant working at the intersection of storage systems and performance-critical code. His industry experience includes file systems work at NVIDIA and architectural internships at Samsung Semiconductor, complemented by research at AT&T Labs. Madhava blends rigorous academic training with hands-on production experience, translating research prototypes into scalable system components. Based in Blacksburg, VA, he brings deep expertise in concurrency control and indexing heuristics often overlooked in typical application-layer engineers. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who navigates both theoretical models and practical trade-offs in large-scale storage systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Anna University, Chennai
English