Senthilnathan Natarajan
Senior Research Scientist at Hyperledger
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSenthilnathan Natarajan is a Senior Research Scientist with 10 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, databases, and cloud/virtualization technologies, currently based in Bengaluru. He holds an M.Tech and PhD from IIT Bombay and has advanced from Research Scientist to senior roles at IBM while also serving as a project maintainer for Hyperledger Fabric and Orion. His open-source contributions to Hyperledger Fabric include implementing resilient state-database recovery with savepoints and robust testing—work that directly strengthens a widely used enterprise blockchain framework. Comfortable moving between research and production, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on backend engineering to solve failure-recovery and scalability challenges in permissioned ledgers and cloud-native systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Madras Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (7)
distributed-ledger10
database-management10
go10
blockchain10
distributed-ledger-technology10
concurrency9
leveldb9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger/fabric
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Hyperledger Fabric is an enterprise-grade permissioned distributed ledger framework for developing solutions and applications. Its modular and versatile design satisfies a broad range of industry use cases. It offers a unique approach to consensus that enables performance at scale while preserving privacy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 10 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Senthilnathan's commits focus on enhancing the state database recovery mechanism within the Hyperledger Fabric project. They implemented state database recovery to handle scenarios where the peer fails during the commit process, or if the database becomes corrupted. Their contributions involved introducing savepoints in the database to track block heights and writing code to recover state data from the block storage based on the savepoint. They also improved documentation and added testing to the state and history databases.
casesdevelopingdltdistributed-ledgerhyperledger-fabric
cendhu/fetch-block
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 months
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