Priyank Raj
Staff Software Engineer at Suki
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPriyank Raj is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Altos with a strong backend focus and about six years of recent professional experience building high-performance systems in Go, Python, and C++ on Linux/Unix. He has deep hands-on experience in cloud-native object storage, contributing notable backend features and bug fixes to the widely used MinIO project and its .NET and CLI clients—adding object tagging, versioning, replication, and improved Windows path handling. At Suki and previously at MinIO and Cisco, he’s driven reliability and security improvements in production services while simplifying developer-facing SDKs and tooling. He pairs systems-level debugging with pragmatic API design, often improving error handling and user-facing progress feedback. Priyank’s background in information security (Georgia Tech) and long trajectory across networking and storage vendors gives him an uncommon blend of security-minded systems engineering and practical open-source impact.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Security, MS, Information Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.E, Computer Science & Engineering, B.E, Computer Science & Engineering at RV College Of EngineeringHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala (SRKVS)
English, Kannada
Github Skills (33)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
net10
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
object-storage10
asp-net10
go10
api10
amazon-s310
dotnet-core10
command-line10
cloud-storage10
aws-s310
backend10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
minio/minio-dotnet
Aug 2020 - May 2021
MinIO Client SDK for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 43 commits, 87 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Priyank implemented builder patterns and added support for new APIs related to bucket operations, including versioning, policy management, and replication. They also refactored existing code, introduced new object-level features such as legal hold and tagging, and added documentation with examples. The user's work focused on enhancing the .NET client SDK's functionality and adding support for features commonly found in cloud storage services.
dotnetwindowssdkminioclient-sdk
minio/mc
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Unix like utilities for object store
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 24 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Priyank contributed to the MinIO client's functionality, focusing on adding new commands and features. They introduced a new tag command, enabling users to manage object tags. Additionally, the user worked on improving the mirror functionality, particularly addressing issues with path handling on Windows. They also enhanced error handling and progress updates during object writes, addressing identified bugs.
golangclustersgocloudminio
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