Ram Kannan
Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRam Kannan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cross-functional systems, currently contributing to platform efforts at Netflix from San Jose. His background blends industry-grade distributed systems work at Yugabyte and Uber with deep research training as a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has practical experience across cloud-native databases and large-scale services, having moved between hands-on implementation and system design roles. Ram’s career includes internships and research roles at VMware and Waran Research Foundation, reflecting a steady progression from academic research to high-impact production engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges rigorous academic thinking with the delivery pace required at major tech companies. He brings both systems-level intuition and a track record of shipping reliable software in demanding, distributed environments.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at Madras Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
databases10
postgresql10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database-optimization10
yugabytedb10
database10
testing9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ramsrivatsa/VideoDB
Feb 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ramsrivatsa/ramsrivatsa.github.io
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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