Nitin Badam
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNitin Badam is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix in San Jose with 11 years of experience building scalable VM management, scheduling, and API backends for cloud infrastructure. He brings a strong systems pedigree from an MS at Carnegie Mellon and a B.Tech from IIT Guwahati, and has practical experience across distributed systems, high availability, and databases. At Nutanix he focuses on service scalability and multi-cluster/availability-zone entity scheduling, translating research-grade systems thinking into production services. His open-source contributions include implementing a Memcached-style query parser for the CMU peloton self-driving database, demonstrating hands-on database engine and backend integration skills. Earlier roles at Google and research internships at IISc and other labs show a consistent pattern of improving pipeline isolation, graph analytics performance, and deployed healthcare software. He combines academic rigor with production engineering discipline, making him effective at turning complex distributed problems into reliable, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.8/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.8/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster of Science (M.S.), School of Computer Science, 3.84, Master of Science (M.S.), School of Computer Science, 3.84 at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
databases10
c-language10
postgresql10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
dbms10
sql-database10
memcached10
database10
dbm10
sql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cmu-db/peloton
Mar 2016 - May 2016
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:23 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nitin focused on implementing a query parser for the `peloton` database system. Their contributions included starting the Memcached query parser, implementing basic query parsing for various commands like GET, SET, ADD, and REPLACE, and integrating it into the existing backend system. They also addressed and fixed compilation issues related to the integration of the Memcached query parser with the database backend. The user's work involved modifying the database's core components to support Memcached-style queries.
database-managementdatabasedbms
studentX/graph-algorithms
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
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