Manu Goyal
Software Engineer at Braintrust
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManu Goyal is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems across autonomous vehicles, distributed storage, and low-latency trading infrastructure. Currently at Braintrust after six years at Nuro working on behavior prediction and planning, he brings deep expertise in backend systems, performance optimization, and fault-tolerant distributed software. His early research and internships span Tachyon/Alluxio, Dremel, libcuckoo, and in-memory databases, reflecting a strong foundation in distributed filesystems and concurrent data structures. Manu has contributed bug fixes and path-handling improvements to the well-known Alluxio project, showing attention to correctness in complex I/O code paths. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to move between prototyping and shipping robust, scalable services. Based in San Francisco and educated at UC Berkeley in EECS, he pairs research-grade systems thinking with hands-on implementation experience.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fox Chapel Area High SchoolBachelor's Degree EECS, Bachelor's Degree EECS at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (10)
javas10
filesystem10
tachyons10
file-operations10
fileio10
paths10
java10
orchestrate9
orchestration9
data-analysis4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Alluxio/alluxio
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 22 PRs, 98 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Manu primarily contributed to the `tachyon/alluxio` repository by fixing bugs related to the copyFromLocal functionality for directories in the TFsShell. They modified the code to recursively copy files and subdirectories, adding necessary logic and correcting path handling. Additionally, the user made comments to the MasterInfo file and fixed loadufs exclude, demonstrating a focus on improving functionality and code quality within the Tachyon distributed file system. The user also addressed issues with path manipulation functions, ensuring proper escaping and correct path component handling.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
efficient/libcuckoo
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 357 commits, 34 PRs in 9 years 1 month
multithreadingconcurrent-programmingconcurrencyhashrust
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