Piyush Jain
Software Engineer at Yugabyte
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiyush Jain is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, high-availability backend systems and deep expertise in distributed systems and algorithms. At Yugabyte he led multi-year efforts on core transactional systems that powered mission-critical workloads—including Super Bowl 2024 streaming traffic—and shipped features across the query and storage layers. He mentors engineers, drives cross-functional solutions, and has a track record of operational and cost optimizations such as reducing CI compute waste and improving bulk load performance. Passionate about climate impact, he applies data-driven approaches to energy efficiency and decentralized traceability for environmental markets. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin and combines production-grade engineering with a knack for translating research ideas into practical, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Climate change: Learning For Action, Climate change: Learning For Action at Terra.doMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceChettinad Vidyashram,Chennai
Hindi, English, Marwari
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
postgresql10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
database-design10
index-management10
conflict-resolution9
sql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pkj415/yugabyte-db
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
The high-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale apps.
Contributions:167 pushes, 118 branches in 4 years
dbmsrdbmsdistributed-sql-databasedatastreamdistributed-systems
pyrito/raft
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
C implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
Contributions:203 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
raft-consensusconsensus-protocolconsensuspaxosdistributed-systems
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