Shashi Madappa
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure at Stripe
Campbell, California, United States
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Top SchoolShashi Madappa is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available mission-critical systems across cloud platforms. Currently leading Core Infrastructure at Stripe after senior engineering roles at Apple and multiple leadership positions at Netflix, he has built exabyte-scale storage, resilient cross-region traffic systems, and secure, high-performance caching platforms. His work on EVCache, global data storage for streaming and studio workflows, and contributions to Memcached demonstrate deep expertise in distributed storage, performance tuning, and operational resilience. Known for turning outages into resilient architectures, he emphasizes degraded-but-served systems that keep customers online under adverse conditions. Based in Campbell, California, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic platform leadership and a track record of shipping complex features like persistence, encryption, and auto-scaling in production. Beyond core infrastructure, he has a history of introducing big-data tooling and rearchitecting monoliths into scalable microservices, showing both technical depth and systems-level product thinking.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication at University of MysoreBachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication at Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of EngineeringSir M V Science College
Kannada, Hindi, English
Github Skills (32)
netflix10
caching10
in-memory10
kafka10
memcached10
reader9
rss8
rss-reader8
benchmark7
dynamodb7
api7
lru7
configuration-language5
key-value-store4
foundationdb4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/EVCache
Feb 2013 - Dec 2020
A distributed in-memory data store for the cloud
Contributions:256 releases, 1 review, 575 commits in 7 years 11 months
memorydata-storecachingcloudkafka
Netflix/recipes-rss
Feb 2013 - Feb 2015
RSS Reader Recipes that uses several of the Netflix OSS components
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years
rssrecipesnetflixossrss-reader
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