Summary
Soumya Panigrahi is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 20 years of experience architecting high-performance distributed systems, databases, and SaaS control planes. He has a strong track record of building scalable, cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, Go, and microservices, and led design work that supports hundreds of thousands of managed clusters and global SaaS rollouts. As co-founder of DiceDB he engineered a multi-shard, shared-nothing database that achieved multi-fold throughput and latency improvements versus Redis and introduced real-time reactive watch APIs and adaptive eviction frameworks. His work at VMware delivered mission-critical lifecycle management, observability, and GitOps-based SaaS offerings with 99.99% uptime across large fleets, reflecting deep operational rigor. Soumya combines hands-on systems programming with architecture-level thinking and a focus on minimizing contention and allocations for predictable performance. He is equally comfortable driving product-level innovation and mentoring teams to adopt “Dev Owns Quality” practices.
1 year of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Delhi Public School - India
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan