Ravi Raju
Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavi Raju is an experienced engineer and technical leader with nine years formally counted in current roles and over two decades of hands-on experience designing scalable distributed systems and data center networking, currently contributing at Google from California. He has led high-impact projects at Cisco—architecting distributed consistency checkers, integrating VPP into ACI platforms, and delivering NAT and forwarding features that won key customers—demonstrating deep expertise in TCP/IP, SDN, and high-performance forwarding. Ravi pairs technical depth with business acumen from an MBA in Marketing, enabling him to prototype executive demos and shape new market opportunities. An active open-source contributor, he expanded zerolog to support binary CBOR logging and improved core logging ergonomics, reflecting a focus on efficient, production-ready tooling. Known for solving hard problems with minimal resource overhead, he blends systems-level thinking with practical operational tools that surface and resolve network inconsistencies.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at College of Engineering Guindy, ChennaiMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (10)
json10
logging10
go10
cbor10
structured-logging10
testing9
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rs/zerolog
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Zero Allocation JSON Logger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 62 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ravi primarily contributed to the `zerolog` repository by implementing new features and addressing existing issues. They added support for binary logging using CBOR encoding, expanding the logging format options. The user also addressed a bug in the `decodeFloat` function and introduced the `EmbedObject()` method and caller frame customization for improved logging capabilities. These contributions suggest a focus on enhancing the core functionality and flexibility of the logging library.
golangjson-loggerzerologgerzero-allocation
toravir/csd
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
CBOR Stream Decoder
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 6 months
streamcbordecoder
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