Phani Raj
Staff Software Engineer at Supernormal
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarPhani Raj is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years building distributed, cloud-native systems and 20+ years of experience broadly across infrastructure and back-end engineering. He has led major efforts at GitHub (Actions, Packages, Dependency Graph), PlanetScale, and now Supernormal, where he architects real-time AI-powered transcription and a Rust/Tauri streaming artifact pipeline for a desktop experience used by thousands daily. His work spans systems design, high-scale ingestion and storage, CI/CD automation, and database clustering—contributing to notable open-source projects like Vitess and pkgcloud that power multi-cloud database support and MySQL horizontal scaling. Known for shipping pragmatic, production-grade solutions, he combines deep protocol and schema expertise with hands-on mentorship and cross-team leadership. An engineer who moves between low-level database plumbing and user-facing products, he often bridges gaps between ETL/CDC systems and secure, zero-downtime migrations.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
mysql10
databases10
schema-design10
database-administration10
schema-org10
go10
openstack10
nodejs10
database-cluster10
schema10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
grpc10
database10
testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pkgcloud/pkgcloud
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
pkgcloud is a standard library for node.js that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Phani primarily focused on refactoring and extending the `pkgcloud` library to support multiple cloud database providers, including Rackspace, HP, and OpenStack. Their contributions involved migrating existing Rackspace database clients to OpenStack, adding support for HP, and fixing provider-specific implementations. The user also added database flavor and client tests for HP and OpenStack. These changes demonstrate the expansion and consolidation of database service support within the library.
pkgcloudnode-jsprovidersabstractscloud
vitessio/vitess
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 37 commits, 5 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Phani primarily contributes to the Vitess database clustering system. Their commits focus on implementing and modifying features related to schema management, including the addition of an ApplySchema method to the vtctlservice protobuf definition and related gRPC server implementation. They also work on integrating table ACLs within the system, enabling secure access control. Furthermore, the user makes changes to the core codebase, including code refactoring and error handling.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
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