Summary
Pritesh Ranjan is a systems software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance database and networking systems, currently contributing to Oracle’s Globally Distributed Database Query Processing team in San Jose. He has driven critical features at AWS Aurora—designing a cache coherency system that cut stale-cache transaction failures by over 90% and helping ship encryption-in-transit with minimal overhead—plus tooling to keep a DSQL fork aligned with upstream PostgreSQL. Comfortable across C, Rust, and Python, he’s addressed hard problems like safe stack unwinding across FFI boundaries, ASAN integration, and large-scale storage rollouts. Comfortable operating from prototype to GA, he combines deep systems-level debugging with automation and CI/CD improvements that reduce manual maintenance. Notably, he has a background in SDN and Open vSwitch extensions and won an AWS RDS hackathon leading a point-in-time query feature, reflecting a knack for practical innovation under tight constraints.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Maithili