Rohit Nayak
Software Engineer at PlanetScale
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Nayak is a software engineer with six years of focused experience at PlanetScale and a long background building and consulting on scalable web products and SaaS startups. He is a Vitess maintainer and core backend contributor, driving VReplication multi-tenant support, timezone-aware migration logic, and performance optimizations for a high-profile MySQL clustering project. As a former cofounder and director of a construction-inspection SaaS and an owner of a nomadic consultancy, he blends product-minded engineering with architecture and process design across remote teams. Based in Amsterdam and trained at IIT Bombay and IIT Madras, Rohit pairs deep systems knowledge with pragmatic front-end and documentation improvements, evidenced by full-stack contributions to the vitess.io website. He brings uncommon breadth—from low-level distributed database work to UX-focused site enhancements—and a track record of improving test infrastructure and reducing flakiness in complex codebases.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
hugo10
mysql10
testing10
css10
sass10
databases10
go10
front-end-development10
html10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
back-end-development9
distributed-systems9
vitess9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/website
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
vitess.io website and other project management related content
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:154 reviews, 104 commits, 132 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rohit significantly contributed to the `vitessio/website` repository by enhancing the documentation and UI of the website. They added new VReplication command references, integrated previous/next navigation links for improved article browsing, and modified the sidebar to properly categorize content. Furthermore, they worked on the front-end by updating the navigation bar's appearance and making the prev/next buttons responsive for mobile layouts. Their contributions involved updating styles and layouts using SASS.
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vitessio/vitess
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1619 reviews, 877 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rohit contributed to the development of the Vitess database clustering system, specifically focusing on the core backend functionalities. The commits involved enhancing the VReplication framework, including adding features like multi-tenant support, implementing logic to handle varying timezones in data migration, and optimizing the copy phase to improve performance. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the test infrastructure, adding unit tests for various features and improving existing tests by addressing code flakiness.
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