Santosh Banda
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Newark, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantosh Banda is a software engineer with five years of experience based in Newark, California, currently building at DoorDash after an eight-year tenure at Facebook where he led high-impact database and performance engineering projects. He has deep expertise in MySQL replication, backup systems, and scaling infrastructure—having driven migrations, designed binlog and parallel replication solutions that improved replication speed >5x and reduced backup resource usage by 10x. Santosh blends hands-on systems design with cross-team technical leadership, aligning multiple performance teams and shipping features that enabled 10x scale-ups in live video infrastructure. An IIT Guwahati-trained engineer, he also has roots in web usage mining and browser recommendations from earlier research work, reflecting a mix of practical production engineering and research-driven problem solving.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, CSE, B.Tech, CSE at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
sdk10
otel10
java10
observability9
vault8
secrets7
encryption6
security6
hashicorp-vault5
go5
golang5
xml5
access-management3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sbandadd/opentelemetry-java
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
OpenTelemetry Java SDK
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 5 branches in 22 days
tracingobservabilitysdkopentelemetry-javadistributed-tracing
sbandadd/gokogiri
May 2023 - May 2023
A light libxml wrapper for Go
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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