Mahadevan Ramachandran
Co-founder And CEO at RapidLoop
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarMahadevan Ramachandran is a seasoned software leader and founder based in Bengaluru with 11 years of professional experience building operational and monitoring products. As Co-founder and CEO of RapidLoop he drives pgDash, a production-grade PostgreSQL monitoring solution, combining deep database expertise with product and go-to-market leadership. His background includes architect and principal engineering roles at Zynga, Philips, EMC/Emulex and Siemens Healthcare, giving him strong chops in scalable backend systems, diagnostics and healthcare imaging platforms. An active open-source contributor, he made substantial enhancements to popular tooling like pgmetrics and rtop—improving PostgreSQL observability and SSH-based remote monitoring with robust auth and performance fixes. Known for bridging hands-on engineering with strategic vision, he often surfaces subtle operational improvements (for example, transaction-safe log handling and SSH agent support) that materially improve reliability at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (19)
monitoring10
postgresql10
data-collection10
database-administration10
go10
collections10
metric10
cli10
ssh10
scripting9
authentication9
user-authentication9
regular-expression9
shell9
script9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rapidloop/rtop
May 2015 - Jun 2022
rtop is an interactive, remote system monitoring tool based on SSH
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mahadevan primarily worked on enhancing the `rtop` tool, focusing on improving SSH connection handling and authentication. They added support for SSH agent authentication, encrypted private keys, and implemented SSH configuration file parsing. The user also introduced features, such as support for LVM partitions and CPU usage statistics.
sshmonitoring-toolrtopsystem-monitoringmonitoring
rapidloop/pgmetrics
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Collect and display information and stats from a running PostgreSQL server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:39 releases, 169 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mahadevan contributed significantly to the `pgmetrics` project, a tool for monitoring PostgreSQL. Their work primarily focused on enhancing the tool's functionality, including adding features like version flags, schema and table filtering using regular expressions, and the integration of metrics from pg_stat_statements and AWS RDS/Aurora. The user also addressed critical bug fixes, particularly regarding transaction handling, log file processing, and improved performance of the tool.
golangcollectpostgresql-servermetrics-gatheringstats
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