Pandian Raju
Staff Engineer at Rubrik
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPandian Raju is a Staff Engineer based in Palo Alto with 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed and big data systems, currently leading platform work at Rubrik. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin and a B.Tech from College of Engineering, Guindy, and brings strong research experience in storage optimizations from his graduate work on LevelDB/HyperLevelDB and merkelized LSM structures. Pandian joined Rubrik as an early engineer on cloud data management services and progressed through roles focused on scalable storage and data pipelines. Earlier roles at Flipkart and internships at Quora and Amazon gave him hands-on experience with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Airflow and production ETL at internet scale. He combines deep systems-level intuition with practical product delivery, often surfacing crash-consistency and write-amplification tradeoffs that improve reliability and cost-efficiency. Pragmatic and curious, he blends academic rigor with operational experience to simplify complex storage problems for production environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at Sakthi Vinayakar Hindu VidyalayaBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at College of Engineering, Guindy
English, Tamil
Github Skills (8)
leveldb10
testing9
osdi9
reliability9
key-value-store8
database7
key-value6
storage1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pandian4github/BiLSTM-POS-Tagging
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
pandian4github/distributed-kv-store
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch, 15 comments in 1 month
databasestorageclusterclientskey-value
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