Sai Charan
Senior Software Engineer at Dell EMC
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolSai Charan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hyderabad with 8 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and streaming infrastructure. Currently at Dell EMC, he has progressed from intern to senior engineer, delivering production fixes and performance improvements across controller and task workflows. An active open-source contributor, he helped harden Pravega — a notable streaming storage project — by resolving critical NPEs, accelerating controller tests, and adding TLSv1.3 and JKS support. He combines deep practical experience in Java-based distributed systems with a strong academic foundation (MTech, IIIT Bangalore) and early hands-on parsing/tooling work from internships. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on stability and security in complex, stateful services.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and TechnologyInternational Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
English, Telugu, Hindi
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Github Skills (24)
debugging10
debug10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems10
java10
data-ingestion10
javas10
distributed-file-system10
distributed-database10
streaming10
tls129
tls139
spring-boot9
mtls9
libtls9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pravega/pravega
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Pravega - Streaming as a new software defined storage primitive
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 18 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Sai primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the Pravega streaming platform. Their work involved fixing a critical NullPointerException in the `StreamMetadataTasks` class by properly initializing an `EventHelper`. Additionally, the user addressed task sweeping issues by incorporating KeyValueTable workflows to sweep the tasks left incomplete by a failed controller. Furthermore, they addressed issues to speed up controller unit tests. Finally, the user added support for TLSv1.3 and JKS format certificates and fixed an issue in the InvalidEventNumber Wirecommand.
streaming-datadistributed-storagereal-time-datadefineddata-ingestion
kotlasaicharanreddy/pravega
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Pravega - Streaming as a new software defined storage primitive
Contributions:17 PRs, 441 pushes, 50 branches in 2 years 6 months
definedstreamingprimitivepravegastorage
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