Radheshyam Balasundaram
Software Engineer at Google
Switzerland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRadheshyam Balasundaram is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on distributed systems, cryptography, and systems security, currently building VM management features on Google Compute Engine. He combines production-grade cloud engineering at Google with a strong research background from UC San Diego, where he worked on faster lattice algorithms relevant to cryptosystems. Earlier contributions include a high-impact RocksDB SST format based on cache-friendly Cuckoo Hashing that delivered 2–4x point-lookup improvements, reflecting his ability to turn theory into measurable system gains. He has strong backend and database expertise, having added NUMA support and refactored core RocksDB components to improve performance and maintainability. Based in Switzerland, he bridges academic rigor and large-scale production engineering, comfortable navigating both low-level algorithm design and distributed cloud services. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who seeks elegant, performance-oriented solutions rooted in principled research.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceUniversity of California, San Diego
English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (15)
rocksdb10
data-structures10
algorithms10
databases10
storage-engine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
data-structure10
database10
testing9
performance-optimization9
google-apps-script6
urlfetch6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
facebook/rocksdb
Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Radheshyam primarily focused on enhancing the RocksDB database library. Their contributions include adding NUMA support to the db_bench tests for improved performance and refactoring the Version::Get() method to move file picker logic into a separate class. The user also implemented a new SST table builder based on Cuckoo Hashing, including the necessary logic, file storage, and unit tests. Further work involved integrating the Cuckoo Hash SST table format into RocksDB, including the cuckoo_table_factory, and modifications to the reader and builder for better performance.
persistent-storagebigtablefast-storagelsm-treedatabase
adyarshyam/spoj
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.